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Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was an English botanist and, some argue, the very first female photographer, most noted for using photography in her books on various plants. She became interested in the cyanotype process which produced images through so-called sun-printing. The object is placed on paper which has been treated with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, after which it is exposed to sunlight and then washed in water, leading to the uncovered areas of the paper turning a dark blue. The process, known as blueprinting, was later used to reproduce architectural and engineering drawings, but Atkins chose to use it for what is considered to be the first work with photographic illustrations, namely her Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions(1843). Only 13 copies of the handwritten book are known to exist, some of which are in various stages of completion. Later, she would collaborate with another female botanist, Anne Dixon (1799–1864), in making two more books featuring cyanotypes: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853) and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns(1854). Atkins became a member of the Botanical Society in London in 1839. From Public Domain Review
Poetry

The Teenager Has Gone Witchy (and other poems)

When I come upstairs to ask her to do dishes, her room 
smells of cedar smoke, slightly skunky, like pot’s half-brother.

Melissa HeltonSeptember 2021April 2022
Nonfiction

An In-Progress Cookbook of Recipes That Stick to My Ribs

If you stand on a chair it will be in the way of your mother, so let her lift you onto the counter next to the glass pan into which she is laying noodles.

Hanna FergusonSeptember 2021September 2021
Fiction

The Subterranean Calendar

Something inside you wakes up and sees what day it is: the day to buy the Halloween candy.

Joan WickershamSeptember 2021September 2021

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