Posts Tagged ‘ cyanotype ’
Earlier this year, photographer Mathieu Stern discovered a time capsule dating back to the early 1900s in his family home. The 120-year-old box held a little girl’s cherished possessions, including a paper doll, seashell, and two glass plate negatives. Stern decided to develop the photographs using . . .
Dings & Shadows (2018) © Ellen Carey
Donna’s poem – “Rapture in Oneiric Blue” – celebrates Anna Atkins, whose cyanotypes produced a Prussian blue — the word “cyan” means “blue” — and Hundred Heroines is honoring Atkins, the 19th century British pioneer, who had many firsts: first female practitioner in photography, she made the first photo-book; first to use text in and around her unique photograms of nature found in her botanical studies; and first in colour/color . . . . and Donna’s poem highlights light and color with Carey, in the 21st century, made in the “light-tight” darkroom, where no light is allowed, except upon exposure. Thank you, Donna, for your wonderful poetry and more, on Ellen Carey’s work at www.ellencareyphotography.com or Wikipedia. – Ellen Carey
Anna Atkins, “Ulva latissima,” from Volume III of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1853), cyanotype (courtesy Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized.
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An excellent link to the cyanotypes or “ocean flowers” of the first woman photographer, Anna Atkins follows from the collections of the New York Public Library: Anna Atkins
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