Anna Atkins : Cyanotypes

Cologne: Taschen, 2023. Limited edition, number 1442 of 7500, printed and bound in Italy, in original illustrated slipcase.Quarto, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, cyanotype plates (550 impressions), colour and b&w illus, index, pp 660. Fine condition. (heavy book, please inquire regarding postage.)

Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) was a British botanist and photographer, best known for her pioneering work in the field of cyanotype photography. Her privately published book "Photographs of British Algae" (1843) is considered the first book to be illustrated with photographic images, and some sources consider her the first woman to create a photograph. "Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes" draws extensively from the copies of the New York Public Library and J. Paul Getty Museum, and has carefully compiled cyanotypes from several sources to reprint Atkins seminal works in full. Over 550 cyanotype impressions are accompanied by a series of introductory essays from Peter Walther, placing Atkins work in its scientific and art-historical contexts. 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. For the first time, this edition reprints her works British Algae and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns in their entirety. Text in English, German and French. Item #103305

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