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Good day to you all! My name is Anna Atkins. I am a British photographer best known for my cyanotypes, or blueprints, of the species of algae in the British Isles. I was the first person of either gender to use cyanotypes to create a long-term scientific study of the natural world. My father was a scientist and I helped him by creating drawings for some of his works such as his translation of Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet de Lamarck's Genera of Shells. Well, I must be going, as I have much work to do between housekeeping and my photography. Farewell!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Artifact #10

A cyanotype of Laminaria Digitata from my book British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.

"Anna Atkins Laminaria Digitata." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 15 Mar 2011. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Atkins_Laminaria_digitata.jpg>.
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3 comments:

  1. Mary ShelleyApril 15, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    Oh, how interesting! A scientist influenced by art! How extremely interesting! I love your prints, and the fact that we were both influenced by science! Your art is definitely state of the art, if you pardon my expression.

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  2. Charles GarnierApril 22, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    That is quite amazing! Photography is wonderful! Perhaps they shall make moving picture someday.

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  3. Barthelemy ThimonnierMay 2, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    Well, I find this is very interesting. Photographhy is a wonderful thing, exspecially in my field of art. It would be spectacular to have somone like you to photograph my work.

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