Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes. 45th Ed. - Peter Walther

The first woman to use the fledgling medium of photography for scientific purposes, Anna Atkins captured the delicacy of algae and ferns in her albums, pioneering examples of photographic practice in their own right. This edition reprints her groundbreaking works British Algae and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns. Botanical Blueprints A pioneer of early photography At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to... Zobrazit více