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
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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