# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CthiPOnyz0G
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34227488-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c76ec0d30b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-06-15T20:12:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

The first photo book maker ever? Anna Atkins was a 19th-century botanist turned photographer who used photographic techniques to record plant specimens.

She was an avid amateur botanist who collected samples from around the world. She used photography as a new way to preserve those botanical samples and share them with others. Her publication "British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions" was one of the first uses of light-sensitive materials to illustrate a book.

Swipe to see six other cyanotypes that were all made in 1854 and part of an album Anna Atkins made as a gift to her collaborator Anne Dixon.

#GettyMuseum #Photography #NaturePhotographyDay #ArtHistory #Cyanotype #Art

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cyanotype, gettymuseum, art, arthistory, photography, naturephotographyday

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