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Anna Atkins, Marc Riboud, Women Photographers, Gcse Photography, Portrait Artists, Edward Weston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Photography Words, Printmaking Art

Cyanotypes of algae from the first book to contain photographs are to feature in the Horniman Museum's new arts space as part of an installation developed by Serena Korda English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was the...

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https://flic.kr/p/5JKmnB | Cystoseira granulata. | Digital ID: 419695. Atkins, Anna -- Photographer. 1843-53   Source: Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions. / Part I. (more info)   Repository: The New York Public Library. Spencer Collection.   See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?419695   Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more inform... Natural Form Artists, Serena Joy, Anna Atkins, Cyanotype Printing, Cyanotype Art, Cyanotype Process, Women Photographers, Sun Prints, Prints Photography

Digital ID: 419695. Atkins, Anna -- Photographer. 1843-53 Source: Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions. / Part I. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Spencer Collection. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?419695 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

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atkins-peacock Cyanotype Photography, Cyanotype Ideas, Anna Atkins, Cyanotype Printing, Sun Printing, Louis Daguerre, Evelyn Nesbit, Cyanotype Art, Cyanotype Process

In 1843, Anna Atkins, daughter of the prominent British scientist John George Children, began work on her book of photograms (the full edition of which would include over 400 prints) documenting specimens of British algae, what is now considered the first book to be fully illustrated with photography and the first use of photography for scientific documentation. Two exhibitions at the New York Public Library’s Schwarzman Building, “Blue Prints” and “Anna Atkins Refracted,” celebrate this…

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One of the many cyanotypes (or "sunprints") that make up Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843) by Anna Atkins, an English botanist and, some argue, the very first female photographer, most noted for using photography in her books on various plants. Having grown up with her father John George Children (a chemist, mineralogist, and not too successful zoologist) Atkins was surrounded by science and also contributed to her father's work. Through her father and her husband…

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