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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A is for Anna Atkins



Anna Atkins 
(1799 - 1871)

Ms, Atkins was a botanist and is considered the first female photographer.  She is thought to be the first to publish a book using photograms as illustrations, a type of image created using light and special paper. 

The images are also quite beautiful.  



#AtoZChallenge

15 comments:

  1. Those are some considerable achievements and I've never even heard of her. Thank you for enlightening me.
    Tasha
    Tasha's Thinkings | Wittegen Press | FB3X (AC)

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    1. The book she published was hand-written - can you imagine?

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  2. Very interesting! I'd never heard of her either but the image you posted is cool.

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    1. I had a hard time picking which image to use on my post! They were all so pretty!

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  3. The image is beautiful! I love your theme for the challenge.

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    1. Thanks! It was just took a brief pity-party moment of my own to come up with a theme I really enjoyed researching.

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  4. This is such a great theme for the A-to-Z Challenge! As a female biologist myself, Anna Atkins is certainly inspirational. Nice post :)

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    1. Thanks! Biology is an interesting field.
      I was also interested in her prints - this form of photography must be a fore-runner of blueprints. The colors are beautiful!

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  5. I love all the effort at cataloguing the incredible contributions women have made to science (among other things, of course!) over the years. Great post!

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    1. It's nice to see ladies making such contributions back in a time when women didn't usually get the educational opportunities that men did.

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  6. It's cool how Anna Atkins merged her experience as a botanist with her photography work. I'm pretty much unfamiliar with her so it's nice to read this bit about her on your blog!

    ~Nicole
    A to Z Challenge Co-Host
    The Madlab Post

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    1. Thanks! She was just recently on a Google Doodle, which is how I found her! I could have written a LOT more about her, but I tired to keep the bio brief.

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  7. I've never heard of a photogram before. It truly is lovely. Interesting choice for A! Happy a-zing...
    Michele at Angels Bark

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    1. It's amazing how pretty such a simple image is!

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  8. I've never heard of a photogram before. It truly is lovely. Interesting choice for A! Happy a-zing...
    Michele at Angels Bark

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