In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blue-print. Atkins arranged algae specimens collected from around the British Isles on a sheet of g
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Anna Atkins, pioneering female photographer, revolutionized scientific illustration using a newly invented photographic technique.
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