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 ...

For more images, see the New York Public Library’s digital collection, Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins’s Cyanotypes of British Algae. *This article was updated on March 21, 2016 to reflect the following ...

Some of the most famous and influential cyanotypes were made by Anna Atkins, an English botanist who leveraged the technique to publish what is widely regarded as the first photographic ...

Anna Atkins is ... This was a cyanotype — a new way to print photographs permanently. Herschel primarily used cyanotypes to copy notes, but when Atkins heard about the technique, she leapt ...

Anna Atkins (1799–1871), Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state & in fruit, from PartXI of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1849-1850, cyanotype | Spencer Collection ...

Cyanotype Impressions. No author name was given, just, hidden away, the initials “AA”. Lang assumed they stood for “Anonymous Amateur” but in fact they stood for Anna Atkins. What Lang held in his ...

The images were made by English amateur botanist and photographer Anna Atkins ... to the library. Atkins is also the author of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, which is ...

Nearly two centuries ago, botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins‘s influential book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions, wowed readers with its scientific power and ...

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 ...