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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 #8

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

"Anna Atkins Cystoseira Granulata." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 15 Mar 2011. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Atkins_Cystoseira_granulata.jpg>.
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5 comments:

  1. Clara FisherApril 15, 2011 at 5:59 AM

    Hello my name is Clara Fisher. I just wanted you to know that i absolutly love your blue prints. Im not that much an amature about the arts because i am an actress, but i know nothing about blue prints.

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  2. Jean-Francois MilletApril 15, 2011 at 6:29 AM

    Wow Ana I would neve have imaged how beautifal seaweed could be !

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  3. Clara FisherApril 18, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    i agree

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  4. Charles DickensApril 22, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    I have never seen much sea weed. I would not imaine it so wonderful.

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  5. Marie TaglioniApril 22, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    It is beautiful seaweed Anna, very good work. I like your prints.

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