Botanist and photographer
Anna Atkins
The botanist who made the first book illustrated with photographs, in blue.
On Picturepops™ cards · 13
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Seaweed, Chylocladia ovalisby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Desmarestia Seaweed Cyanotypeby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Seaweed (Cladostephus verticillatus)by Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Seaweed, Conferva gracilisby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Diatom Tuftsby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Gut Weedby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Seaweed (Kalymenia dubyi)by Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Seaweed, Gigartina acicularisby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Gulf Weedby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Laverby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Seaweed (Rhodomenia polycarpa)by Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Thongweedby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00 -
Velvet Hornby Anna Atkins$13.00$18.00
The life
1799–1871Born Tonbridge, Kent, England
Anna Atkins was an English botanist who learned photography in its earliest days. From 1843 she laid seaweeds straight onto light-sensitive paper in the sun, making cyanotypes, white shapes on deep blue, and bound them into Photographs of British Algae, often called the first book illustrated with photographs. Our seaweed cards are hers.