Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes

A cyanotype book of algae and ferns that looks strikingly modern, made by Anna Atkins in the Victorian era with sunlight and sensitized paper. She exposed each specimen directly to the sun and left a white silhouette on Prussian blue.Atkins was the first woman to use photography for scientific purposes, and her botanical albums were the first books to feature photographic images. This cyanotype book reprints them in full. Science and art share every page. A great gift for botanists, photographers, and anyone who loves a deep Prussian blue.Part of our Design Books and The Naturalist collections.