Anna Atkins
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Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to
Atkins in 1861
A cyanotype photogram made by Atkins which was part of her 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
Detail of title page of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail from the 1853 book Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns by Atkins and Dixon
Photogram
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A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light.
Anna Atkins
…Halstead, near Sevenoaks, Kent. They had no children. Atkins pursued her interests in botany by collecting dried plants, which were probably used as photograms later. She was elected a member of the London Botanical Society in 1839. John George Children and John Pelly Atkins were friends of William Henry Fox…
A photogram of a number of photography-related objects
Photogram with soil and plants
One of Anna Atkins's cyanotype photograms of Festuca grasses
Photogram of a feather by Van Dyke brown print copying technique.