Artist of the Week. Anna Atkins

   

Google Doodle Anna Atkins' 261th Birthday

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 Atkins’ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) is generally credited as being the first photobook ever published

https://collectordaily.com/blue-prints-the-pioneering-photographs-of-anna-atkins-new-york-public-library/

                                                                                  Portrait from 1861

                                                         A cyanotype of algae by 19th century botanist Anna Atkins

A copy of Anna Atkins' book

Rene' West, Anna Atkin's book, shot at the Metropolitan Museum, 2009

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Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail from the 1853 book Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns by Atkins and Dixon

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1507/anna-atkins-british-1799-1871/

https://www.moma.org/artists/231

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/arts/design/she-needed-no-camera-to-make-the-first-book-of-photographs.html

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