Nearly two centuries ago, botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins‘s influential book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions, wowed readers with its scientific power and ...

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 ...

Cyanotypes incorporate elements of collage and photography. A simple print might feature a deep blue background created by the chemical reaction accented by the white outline of a leaf ...