A Woman to Know: Anna Atkins
While there's been a huge change in science where women are concerned, it all started with botany and women like Anna Atkins. — research scientist Vicki Funk, on Anna Atkins
(image via The New York Public Library Digital Collection)
Anna was a double threat: an accomplished botanist, yes, but also the first woman to create a photograph. Her first book of prints only circulated in the dozens of copies, but eh, who today cares? When you're the first, you're the first.
Add to your reading list:
Sun Gardens (Anna Atkins)
Photographs of British Algae (Anna Atkins)
Read more:
How Anna Atkins blazed a garden path for women to sneak into science (CS Monitor)
The Hauntingly Beautiful Photos of Anna Atkins, Creator of Botanical Photography (Vice)
Anna Atkins published the first book with photographs. Here are a few of them. (Vox)
Impressions (The Paris Review)
Google's tribute to a pioneer of photography and botany (The Guardian)
Ethereal images from world's first photo book released (National Geographic)
See more:
The Anna Atkins photographs (The New York Public Library Digital Collection)
Anna Atkin's photographs (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Anna Atkins (The J. Paul Getty Museum)
Watch more:
Anna Atkins (Google Doodle)
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