Today is Anna Atkins' birthday, the first lady photographer and the first person ever to publish an illustrated book with photographs of her main penchant - botany. She used "Cyanotype impression", the same methods used to create blue-prints by contact printing, as her method to capture the images without a camera (generally termed as photogram) of common british seaweeds like algea in her first self published book "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions".
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And ever since 1843, she inspired every one around the world to create their own photographic illustrations... Now that I call a major contribution to the modern society! To top that, cyanotype artwork has been really trendy among photographers... It kind of reminds me of my favourite print - blue and white porcelain.
Here are some of her photogramic and photographic artworks in the field of botany:
Beautiful aren't they? Hope you liked them too...
Until next time,
And ever since 1843, she inspired every one around the world to create their own photographic illustrations... Now that I call a major contribution to the modern society! To top that, cyanotype artwork has been really trendy among photographers... It kind of reminds me of my favourite print - blue and white porcelain.
Here are some of her photogramic and photographic artworks in the field of botany:
Until next time,
JB
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