24 de dezembro de 2011

The Surprising Subject of the First Book of Photographs - Algae


If you do not know what was about the first book of photographs published, Scientific American will let you know.

In 1843 Anna Atkins, the daughter of John George Children, a scientist who worked in the British Museum’s Natural History Department was taught by her father more about science that most girls could expect to learn in those days, and it seems to have sparked a life-long love in her.

She and her father knew Sir John Herschel, the inventor of the cyanotype, and he, or someone who knew him, *cough*, exposed her to the new technique in about 1842 or 43. more here. 




Algae - Anna Atkins - 1843

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