Started by Jade Fontaine (@jade_f) ·
the first photobook was about seaweed
Anna Atkins laid algae specimens directly on paper coated with iron salts and left them in the sun. No camera involved. She started publishing the book in 1843, in parts. Architects' blueprints used the same chemistry for decades afterwards.
5 sources · 32 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “first book illustrated with photographs”
- Ended at
- Blueprint
The Trail
- “first book illustrated with photographs” (google.com)
- Anna Atkins (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cyanotype (en.wikipedia.org)
- John Herschel (en.wikipedia.org)
invented the cyanotype in 1842
- Blueprint (en.wikipedia.org)
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