Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was born on the 16th of  March 1799 and died on the 9th of  June 1871, he was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images such as:




          



Atkins learned of the photographic process then being invented. In particular, she was interested in the cyanotype process, which can produce an image by what is commonly called sun-printing. The substance to be recorded is laid on paper impregnated with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. When exposed to sunlight and then washed in plain water the uncovered areas of the paper turn a rich deep blue. Eventually this process, known as blueprinting, was used mainly to reproduce architectural and engineering drawings.


In my opinion, I think that Ana Atkins demonstrated how is it produce a blue-colour photogram.


Anna Atkins was working at the very dawn of photographic development.

More recently, photogramists have utilized the photogram as a means of artistic expression to produce a wide variety of designs and surreal imagery.


Atkins’s project was the first sustained effort to demonstrate that the medium of photography could be both scientifically useful and aesthetically pleasing.
Also I think that in a lot of the work that she has produced has been a lot of blue & purple photograms.


Atkins applied the process to algae (specifically, seaweed) by making cyanotype photograms that were contact printed, "by placing the unmounted dried-algae original directly on the cyanotype paper".