anna atkins & the world's first photograhic book

[rwjr]

english botanist & photographer anna atkins is credited with being the first person to publish a book of photographic images , the book titled " photographs of british algae : cyanotype impressions " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anna_atkins , https://petapixel.com/2015/02/03/look-inside-worlds-first-photo-book-1843/ & https://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8218855.anna-atkins-photographs

 

[jim10219]

Technically, those would be photograms, not photographs, since no camera or lens was used. But she was an important figure in both photographic and botanical history, nonetheless.