Google’s Latest Doodle Pays Tribute to Photography Pioneer Anna Atkins
Visitors to Google today are being treated to a Doodle logo replacement that pays tribute to photography pioneer Anna Atkins. Atkins was born 216 years ago today, and in her life she became one of the first — if not the first — women to create a photograph.
After Atkins started using the cyanotype process to image algae, she compiled the work into a book titled Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in 1843. As we shared last month, the book is considered to be the first book ever to be illustrated exclusively with photographs. Here’s a tour of that first photobook:
Happy birthday, Anna Atkins!
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