New book collates the pioneering photographs of Anna Atkins


Opnamedatum: 2017-02-06 10 Dasya coccinea Anna Atkins, British Algae, Volume II (1851) ? TASCHEN

Dasya coccinea

TASCHEN/Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

THESE superbly detailed pictures present the outstanding legacy of Anna Atkins, a Nineteenth-century botanist who left her stamp on science and pictures together with her signature “cyanotype” prints.

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291522 Sphacelaria scoparia Anna Atkins, British Algae, Part III (1844)

Sphacelaria scoparia

TASCHEN/The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York

The choice is taken from a brand new e book by Peter Walther, Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes, which reveals the ingenuity of Atkins, who used cyanotypes as a medium for documenting vegetation and algae. Her pictures had an unprecedented readability and accuracy, and have been produced by inserting specimens onto paper coated with a light-sensitive iron salt answer. The paper was then uncovered to daylight and washed with water to repair the picture.

Lastrea focnisecii; Anna Atkins (British, 1799 - 1871), and Anne Dixon (British, 1799 - 1877); 1853; Cyanotype; 25.4 ?? 19.4 cm (10 ?? 7 5/8 in.); 84.XO.227.24; No Copyright - United States (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/)

Lastrea foenisecii

TASCHEN/J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Atkins printed Pictures of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in 1843 – the primary time a e book was illustrated with images. She printed three volumes in complete, of which solely a handful of copies are identified to exist at this time in museums, libraries and galleries world wide.

14 Rhodomenia polycarpa Anna Atkins, British Algae, Volume III (1853)

Rhodomenia polycarpa

TASCHEN/New York Public Library

Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes collates greater than 550 of her iconic pictures, which, together with representing “milestones within the historical past of science and media”, writes Walther, are additionally particular because of the “timeless aesthetic enchantment” of the intricate specimens contrasted towards blue.

15 Conferva gracilis Anna Atkins, British Algae, Volume III (1853) ? TASCHEN / New

Conferva gracilis

TASCHEN/New York Public Library

The primary picture is the algae Dasya coccinea, initially pictured in Pictures of British Algae Quantity II. The picture under that’s Sphacelaria scoparia. The third picture exhibits Lastrea foenisecii, a fern from Atkins’s Cyanotypes of British and International Ferns, adopted by two algae species, Rhodomenia polycarpa and Conferva gracilis, which featured in Pictures of British Algae Quantity III.

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