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Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871 [1]) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.
Anna Atkins (born March 16, 1799, Tonbridge, Kent, England—died June 9, 1871, Halstead Place, Kent) was an English photographer and botanist noted for her early use of photography for scientific purposes.
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 chemical process to create impressively detailed blueprints of botanical specimens.
Anna Atkins. In October 1843, the botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799–1871) wrote a letter to a friend. “I have lately taken in hand a rather lengthy performance,” revealed Atkins.
Jan 11, 2019 · Woman, only child, mother, and scientist, Anna Atkins has progressed in the public imagination from an “Anonymous Amateur” to a proper pioneer of photography. A photographer recently told me she took her children to see the show, telling them, “This is part of why Mom is a photographer.”
How a small-town woman botanist became a photography pioneer.
Nov 15, 2018 · The British botanist Anna Atkins published her evocative cyanotypes of algae and seaweed 175 years ago. Now, the New York Public Library is celebrating her innovation.
Jan 7, 2016 · The images were made by English amateur botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), who may have been the first woman to create a photograph, according to the library.
Jan 3, 2019 · Anna Atkins: discovering one of photography’s hidden pioneers. For more than a century, the creator of these exquisite algae prints was unknown. Joshua Chuang charts her emergence. ‘Dictyota...
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Anna Atkins British. 1843–53. Not on view. The first book to be photographically printed and illustrated, Photographs of British Algae was published in fascicles beginning in 1843 and is a landmark in the history of photography.
