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Yesterday ( 3/16 ) was Anna Atkin's birthday ! If you don't know who she was, she was most likely the first woman photographer ( its either her or Fox Talbot's wife Constance, but none of Constance's images survive ). Atkins was friends with Fox Talbot and Sir John Herschel ( Mr Fixer and Mr Cyanotype ). She made a self published book ( the first illustrated by photographs ! ) of Algae ( 1843-1853 ) called Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Only 17 of these books exist. To put into context Talbot invented Calotypes+Saltprints in 1839, Herschel invented Cyanotypes in 1840 and Talbot's book ( the first commerically printed book with photographs ) The Pencil of Nature was published in 1844 !
Has anyone seen Atkin's book ? Yeah, I know the NY Public Library has a digital version online but there really is nothing like a physical BOOK. If you saw it, did it blow your mind ? Like Atkins, Darwin also made contact prints of botany when he was on the HMS Beagle.
Has anyone seen Atkin's book ? Yeah, I know the NY Public Library has a digital version online but there really is nothing like a physical BOOK. If you saw it, did it blow your mind ? Like Atkins, Darwin also made contact prints of botany when he was on the HMS Beagle.
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