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  Cameraless photography

  Fox Talbot's contemporary, illustrator and botanist Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871), capitalised on both the…

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  V&A South Kensington

  Design Council Alisha Fisher, Director, Migrants Bureau Amy Frearson, Editor-at-large, Dezeen Annie…

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  The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project

  several other works by significant 19th-century women artists, including Lady Clementina Hawarden, Anna…

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  A blueprint for the future: Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins

  In 1854 Anna Atkins created a series of images preserving nature using the cyanotype photographic process; 127 years later these rare Prussian blue images arrived at the V&A. The photographs represent Festuca ovina (fescue grasses;...
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  The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project

  Other historical highlights include rare works by pioneers Anna Atkins and Mary Dillwyn, as well as outstanding…
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  Our new Photography Centre is now open

  A ground-breaking botanical cyanotype by Anna Atkins, images by the world’s first female museum photographer…
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  Luterma plywood bags

  specimens could be taken home and pressed or illustrations could be made of them (or in the case of Anna…
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  Born on This Day: Queen Christina of Sweden

  Christina was noted for her patronage of art, literature, and music and aimed for Stockholm to become the ‘Athens…