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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!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Artifact #5

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

"Anna Atkins Algae Cyanotype." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 14 Mar 2011. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Atkins_algae_cyanotype.jpg>.

1 comment:

  1. i find this painting very interesting. One thing that we do have in common is that a play that i was in had a book published with all of the roles that i played, just like a book with your blue brints in it

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