Research Catalog

Title

Anna Atkins : blue prints / with texts by Rolf Sachsse ; concept by Marion Blomeyer ; translation into English, Russell Stockman.

Publication

• Munich : Hirmer, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sachsse, Rolf
• Blomeyer, Marion
• Stockman, Russell
• Atkins, Anna, 1799-1871

Description

69 pages : color illustrations, portrait; 21 cm

Summary

The English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was an early innovator in the history of photography. For the publication of her collections of plant photography, she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843, she used the process to create the first book to be illustrated with photographs in history, with images of breathtaking beauty and originality which often look like modern art.0At first, Atkins worked for and with her father, the zoologist John George Children; later she chose the objects for her scientific compositions herself: algae and ferns. Atkins placed them on light-sensitive paper that turned dark blue in water after being developed, with the exception of the places that had been covered by the plants. Initially alone, and then with her friend Anne Dixon, she produced well over 10,000 copies of her astonishingly delicate, deeply hued photograms and assembled them in several books like albums. Today these rare copies are regarded as treasures and are preserved in museums and libraries. This book presents a large number of Atkins's images, beautifully reproduced, and gives contemporary audiences a chance to appreciate this neglected pioneer.

Subject

• Atkins, Anna, 1799-1871
• Cyanotypes > History > 19th century
• Photography of plants
• Algae > Pictorial works
• Plants > Pictorial works
• Algae
• Ferns
• Nature photography

Genre/Form

• Photobooks.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Translated from the original German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQD 22-164

ISBN

• 9783777438283
• 3777438286

LCCN

9783777438283

OCLC

1280300389

Title

Anna Atkins : blue prints / with texts by Rolf Sachsse ; concept by Marion Blomeyer ; translation into English, Russell Stockman.

Publisher

Munich : Hirmer, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sachsse, Rolf, writer of supplementary textual content.

Blomeyer, Marion, contributor.

Stockman, Russell, translator.

Atkins, Anna, 1799-1871, photographer.

Other Form:

9783943616811 German edition

Other Standard Identifier

9783777438283

Research Call Number

JQD 22-164