Pretend
to yourself that you’re a tiny bit interested in knowing the answers to these
questions:
Who
was the first female photographer?
When
was the first book with photographs published?
Anna
Atkins (1799-1871), a 19th century English botanist, is credited
with being the first woman known to make a photograph when photography was
still a relatively new technology.
She
published Photographs of British Algae with
plates depicting cyanotype impressions in 1843, a path-breaking event in the
publishing world.
British Algae
was printed and circulated privately. Only 17 copies are known to exist, and
many of them are incomplete. The original book consisted of 403 pages with 389
photographs. See more details here.
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