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Anna Atkins

Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions (Sir John Herschel’s Copy)

Joshua Chuang,  Larry J. Schaaf

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English
Steidl Verlag
27 June 2024
Individual photographers
"Shortly after William Henry Fox Talbot announced his invention of photography in 1839, the dedicated amateur botanist Anna Atkins, daughter of a prominent British scientist, began to experiment with

the new medium. In 1843 she turned to her friend Sir John Herschel's

recently discovered cyanotype process to publish her growing collection of native seaweeds-a daring way to introduce photography into book illustration. At regular intervals over the next decade, Atkins

printed and issued these bracingly modern, deeply-hued photograms

to her ""botanical friends"" in the form of hand-stitched fascicles

of a book she entitled

Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions .

The first book to be illustrated by photography and the earliest

sustained application of photography to science, British Algae is a landmark in the histories of publishing and photography. Of the nearly two dozen substantially complete or partial copies known to exist, each is distinct in its appearance and often in its number and arrangement of plates. The set of 13 parts she gave to Sir John Herschel-now

in the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library-is especially

important and was carefully preserved by generations of the Herschel family exactly as Sir John received it. This sumptuous facsimile edition

reproduces the recto and verso of each plate, presenting the work as its creator intended: as bound volumes to lingered over, studied and admired, page by extraordinary page."
By:   ,
Imprint:   Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 200mm, 
ISBN:   9783958295100
ISBN 10:   395829510X
Pages:   464
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Postponed Indefinitley

Anna Atkins (1799-1871) came of age in Victorian England and lived much of her life at Halstead Place in Kent. After producing Photographs of British Algae, she collaborated with her friend Anne Dixon to create striking cyanotypes of ferns, feathers and flowering plants. In addition to The New York Public Library, choice holdings of her photographs can be found the collections such as those of the Royal Society in London, the Linnean Society, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Rijksmuseum and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

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