Sun Gardens. Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins

Crafting and collecting cyanotypes: Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

“…That they are together in large part responsible for the “renaissance” (Garascia, 2020, p. 5) of public as well as academic interest in Atkins can be seen in their involvement in important exhibitions of her work. Armstrong was co‐curator of a 2004 exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and the Drawing Center in New York, “Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature in the Victorian Era” (she also co‐edited the accompanying catalog), while Schaaf's 1985 monograph on Atkins, Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms was expanded and reprinted in 2018 as the catalog for the New York Public Library's “Blue Prints: The Pioneering Photographs of Anna Atkins,” held in 2018–2019 13 . In Sun Gardens and Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography (1992), as well as two earlier articles (1979, 1982), Schaaf has argued for her importance in the early history of photography, prior accounts of which made her a footnote, if that, to a narrative centered on male photographers, photographic entrepreneurs, and photographic researchers such as Talbot, Louis Daguerre, and Herschel.…”