{"id":26502,"date":"2023-08-05T01:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26502"},"modified":"2023-08-02T23:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T03:59:29","slug":"botany-and-the-first-book-with-cyanotypes-of-specimens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/botany-and-the-first-book-with-cyanotypes-of-specimens\/","title":{"rendered":"botany and the first book with cyanotypes of specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ms Atkins c1861 from Wikipedia article<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Did you ever wonder about the first time a book was printed with photographs included? And the topic? and the author?<\/p>\n

Well, wonder no more! My good friend and fellow PHSC member, Les Jones<\/a>, (author, sports photographer, past president of the PHSC, etc.) sent this message along to me with a brief extract from a book review in Nature<\/em><\/a> magazine:<\/p>\n

“Anna Atkins<\/a> was a pioneer of botany [and a friend of William Fox Talbot] at a time when women were largely excluded from scientific discussions. In 1843, she started using a then-brand-new technique called cyanotype<\/a> [shown are three cyanotypes of (from left) Laurencia pinnatifida<\/i>, Aspidium denticulatum<\/i> and Dictyota dichotoma<\/i>. <\/span>Credit: Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group\/Getty] to produce hundreds of ghostly white-on-blue photos of algae and ferns.<\/p>\n

“Her book, which became the first to contain photographic illustrations<\/a>, is now among the rarest of rare. Historian Peter Walther\u2019s print compilation\u00a0Anna Atkins<\/i> reveals more than 500 of her images. ‘To leaf through them is to rediscover an era of painstaking observation and preparation, far removed from a casual snap with a smartphone,’ says science writer and reviewer Georgina Ferry.”<\/p>\n

An interesting story about an historic figure in the history of our favourite art form. Oh yes, and the review covers a 2023 book entitled Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes<\/b> by Peter Walther<\/i> and published in Europe by TASCHEN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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