English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple ...

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blueprint. With the utmost care and under minimal ...

In artist Mandy Barker's new book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype imperfections , she uses the same technique as the botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins to draw attention to the ...

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blue-print. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

Gently flatten any bulky flowers so that the petals splay out ... such as feathers or shells. Anna Atkins used the cyanotype process in her pioneering book on British algae, which gives a blue and ...