September 24, 2016 World Cyanotype Day!
#3 Brought to the top on September 24, 2016 for World Cyanotype Day!
* #2 I brought this cyanotype to the top of my photostream 3 days ago but am bringing it up again because this is Anna Atkins birthday. She was born on March 16, 1799. Happy Birthday Anna!
* I am bringing this image to the top of my photostream to celebrate the launch of a new flickr group, Pteridomania, dedicated to the celebration of ferns. Please visit and add photographs of or objects decorated with ferns.
www.flickr.com/groups/2164834@N20/ This modest little cyanotype (blueprint) photogram is one of my most treasured photographs. It is by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) who learned the process from its inventor, Sir John Herschel, a friend of her family.
She learned about photography from another family friend, William Henry Fox Talbot. Some call her the first woman photographer but that honor most likely belongs to Talbot's wife Constance.
She was interested in botany and used Herschel's cyanotype process and Talbot's photogenic drawing technique to make detailed images of algae. These were privately published in 1843 as Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions which has been called the first photographically illustrated book.
This image of ferns may have been made for one of her later books on British and foreign ferns.
September 24, 2016 World Cyanotype Day!
#3 Brought to the top on September 24, 2016 for World Cyanotype Day!
* #2 I brought this cyanotype to the top of my photostream 3 days ago but am bringing it up again because this is Anna Atkins birthday. She was born on March 16, 1799. Happy Birthday Anna!
* I am bringing this image to the top of my photostream to celebrate the launch of a new flickr group, Pteridomania, dedicated to the celebration of ferns. Please visit and add photographs of or objects decorated with ferns.
www.flickr.com/groups/2164834@N20/ This modest little cyanotype (blueprint) photogram is one of my most treasured photographs. It is by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) who learned the process from its inventor, Sir John Herschel, a friend of her family.
She learned about photography from another family friend, William Henry Fox Talbot. Some call her the first woman photographer but that honor most likely belongs to Talbot's wife Constance.
She was interested in botany and used Herschel's cyanotype process and Talbot's photogenic drawing technique to make detailed images of algae. These were privately published in 1843 as Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions which has been called the first photographically illustrated book.
This image of ferns may have been made for one of her later books on British and foreign ferns.