J. Paul Getty Trust: Woman Who Captured Nature in Blue - Anna Atkins and the Birth of Photographic Art
August 19, 2025
August 19, 2025
LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 19 -- The J. Paul Getty Trust issued the following news release:
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The Woman Who Captured Nature in Blue: Anna Atkins and the Birth of Photographic Art
Anna Atkins's cyanotypes--blue sun prints of seaweeds and ferns--were both a scientific marvel and aesthetic spectacle, bridging the worlds of art and science at a time when women were rarely welcome in either.
Raised in the intellectual circles of Victoria . . .
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The Woman Who Captured Nature in Blue: Anna Atkins and the Birth of Photographic Art
Anna Atkins's cyanotypes--blue sun prints of seaweeds and ferns--were both a scientific marvel and aesthetic spectacle, bridging the worlds of art and science at a time when women were rarely welcome in either.
Raised in the intellectual circles of Victoria . . .