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The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs



written and illustrated by
Fiona Robinson

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Abrams
Imprint
Abrams
ISBN
9781419725517
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As a child, Anna loved to collect plants and insects with her scientist father. As an adult, she became a botanist, and in 1843, published the first book of photographs—cyanotype prints of her vast seaweed collection.
Author’s note. Instructions for making cyanotypes. Bibliography. List of institutions holding Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes. Full-color mixed-media illustrations composed of pencil drawings, watercolor paintings, vintage fabrics and wallpapers, wood veneers, photographs, and reproductions of Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes.

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Format

Print

Page Count

48

Trim Size

12" x 9"

Dewey

770.92 B

AR

5.2: points 0.5

Lexile

800L

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

3

JLG Release

Apr 2019

Book Genres


Topics

Anna Atkins (1799–1871). Women botanists. Women photographers. Nineteenth-century England. Art and artists. Cyanotypes. Natural sciences. Fathers and daughters. Scientists. Entomology.

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