Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes
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At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in
Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to
document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium.
The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created
were made into the first books to feature photographic images.
Striking yet ethereal, these albums are a perfect synthesis of art
and science.Although the cyanotype technique was discovered by her
friend John Herschel, Atkins was the first to realize both its
practical purpose for her own interests in botany and taxonomy, and
its intriguing artistic potential. The process, which involved
fixing the object on sensitized paper and exposing it directly to
sunlight, results in the Prussian blue pigment that forms the
unmistakeable backdrop to these artworks. Atkins’ albums British
Algae (1843–1853) and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
(1853), the latter of which was produced with her friend Anne
Dixon, are works of remarkable rarity.Reprinted here in their
entirety for the first time, they reveal her mastery of multiple
disciplines: While the cyanotype process allowed Atkins to meet the
challenges of accurate representation, the delicate contours of the
specimens, set above the intense blue background, has lent the
images a timeless aesthetic appeal. This edition, drawing
extensively from the copies of the New York Public Library and J.
Paul Getty Museum, has carefully compiled cyanotypes from several
sources to reprint Atkins’ seminal works in full.Over 550 cyanotype
impressions are accompanied by a series of introductory essays from
Peter Walther, placing Atkins’ work in its scientific and
art-historical contexts and paying rightful tribute to the
groundbreaking contributions of a female pioneer.
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Peter Walther
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