Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes

by Peter Walther

Overview

The first woman to use the fledgling medium of photography for scientific purposes, Anna Atkins captured the delicacy of algae and ferns in her albums, pioneering examples of photographic practice in their own right. For the first time, this edition reprints her works British Algae and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns in their entirety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836596039
Publisher:	TASCHEN
Publication date:	08/26/2023
Edition description:	Multilingual Edition
Pages:	660
Product dimensions:	12.70(w) x 10.20(h) x 2.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Hans Fallada, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He is the author of the TASCHEN publications The First World War in Colour (2014), New Deal Photography. USA 1935–1943 (2016) and Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes (2023).

Editorial Reviews

The images of enigmatic beauty to which Anna Atkins dedicated her life [are] highlighted in a superb new book published by TASCHEN.

BeauxArts Magazine

These beautifully detailed images show the remarkable legacy of Anna Atkins, a 19th-century botanist who left her stamp on science and photography with her signature “cyanotype” prints.

New Scientist

A remarkable testament to the skill, persistence and botanical passion of someone who had rare scientific opportunities for a woman of her time, and who made the most of them.

Nature

…a luminous new edition.

Harper’s Bazaar

Everything there is to know about Anna Atkins, pioneer of photography, is collected in this exquisite TASCHEN volume.

Vogue

A remarkable testament to the skill, persistence and botanical passion of someone who had rare scientific opportunities for a woman of her time, and who made the most of them.

Nature Lib

The cyanotypes appeal, today, partly for their restrained coolness, but they can be seductive too; the pictures delight us with their subtle intricacy or ravishing exuberance.

Apollo

An immense work that is now being shown in its entirety for the first time. Cyanotypes presents Atkins' groundbreaking technology in a scientific and art historical context in order to honor the groundbreaking contributions of a true pioneer."

Stern

...[a] lavish large-format volume.

RA Magazine

…a celebrated botanist and a pioneering photographer.

History Today

Set against that bright Prussian blue background, like alabaster ballerinas of sun and light and frozen movement, Anna Atkins’ subjects still beguile like some botanical dance.

The Washington Post

TASCHEN honors [Atkins’] achievement with a magnificent complete edition... A must.

Monopol

An immense work that is now being shown in its entirety for the first time. Cyanotypes presents Atkins' groundbreaking technology in a scientific and art historical context in order to honor the groundbreaking contributions of a true pioneer."

Stern