Anna Atkins: 250 Cyanotypes - The First Woman Photographer - Annotated Series

ANNA ATKINS: CYANOTYPES - THE FIRST WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER Art Book contains 250 Digitally Restored HD cyanotype reproductions of British Algae and varied plant and animal photographs with annotation for all images and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World and is compatible with all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: March 16, 1799 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.
DIED: June 9, 1871 at Halstead Place, Sevenoaks, Kent.

MOVEMENT: Cyanotype Photography

INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Anna Atkins is credited as being the first woman to create a photograph.
§ Atkins father John George Children was an honoured scientist.
§ She illustrated her father's translated book by Lamarck, Genera of Shells.
§ She is the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs.
§ Atkins learned calotype photography and the "photogenic drawing" technique directly from William Fox Talbot.
§ She learned the cyanotype printing method directly through its inventor, astronomer and scientist Sir John Herschel, a family friend.
§ Atkins produced a total of three volumes of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions between 1843 and 1853.
§ In 1871, Anna Atkins died of "rheumatism, paralysis and exhaustion" at the age of 72.