Anna Atkins: Blue Prints

安娜-阿特金斯 蓝色版画

●产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Hirmer Publishers (2022年 2月 15日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 72页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3777438286

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3777438283

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 260 g

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 13.34x1.27x20.32 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

●内容简介——

这本设计精美的画册介绍了一位女性的作品，她在摄影界的前沿工作长期以来一直被忽视。

英国插画家安娜-阿特金斯（1799-1871 年）是摄影史上早期的创新者。为了出版她的植物摄影集，她使用了新技术，即最近发明的青色摄影。1843 年，她使用这种工艺创作了历史上第一本配有照片插图的书籍，书中的图片美得令人窒息、独具匠心，看起来就像现代艺术品。

起初，阿特金斯为她的父亲、动物学家约翰-乔治-儿童工作；后来，她自己选择了科学创作的对象：藻类和蕨类植物。阿特金斯把它们放在感光纸上，感光纸在水中冲洗后会变成深蓝色，但被植物覆盖的地方除外。阿特金斯最初是独自创作，后来与朋友安妮-迪克森合作，制作了超过 10,000 张精美绝伦、色调深沉的摄影作品，并将它们集结成几本相册。如今，这些稀世珍品被视为珍宝，保存在博物馆和图书馆中。本书展示了大量精美的阿特金斯图片，让当代读者有机会欣赏这位被忽视的摄影先驱。

This exquisitely designed volume presents the work of a woman whose work at the forefront of photography has been too long ignored.

The English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was an early innovator in the history of photography. For the publication of her collections of plant photography, she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843, she used the process to create the first book to be illustrated with photographs in history, with images of breathtaking beauty and originality which often look like modern art.

At first, Atkins worked for and with her father, the zoologist John George Children; later she chose the objects for her scientific compositions herself: algae and ferns. Atkins placed them on light-sensitive paper that turned dark blue in water after being developed, with the exception of the places that had been covered by the plants. Initially alone, and then with her friend Anne Dixon, she produced well over 10,000 copies of her astonishingly delicate, deeply hued photograms and assembled them in several books like albums. Today these rare copies are regarded as treasures and are preserved in museums and libraries. This book presents a large number of Atkins’s images, beautifully reproduced, and gives contemporary audiences a chance to appreciate this neglected pioneer.