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“…a celebrated botanist and a pioneering photographer.” * History Today * “…reveals the ingenuity of Atkins.” * New Scientist * “These beautifully detailed images show the remarkable legacy of Anna Atkins, a 19th-century botanist who left her stamp on science and photography with her signature “cyanotype” prints.” * New Scientist * “…a luminous new edition.” * Harper’s Bazaar * “Set against that bright Prussian blue background, like alabaster ballerinas of sun and light and frozen movement, Anna Atkins’ subjects still beguile like some botanical dance.” * The Washington Post *

“Set against that bright Prussian blue background, like alabaster ballerinas of sun and light and frozen movement, Anna Atkins’ subjects still beguile like some botanical dance.” * The Washington Post *

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Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Hans Fallada, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He is the author of the TASCHEN publications The First World War in Colour (2014), New Deal Photography. USA 1935–1943 (2016) and Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes (2023).

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