英国藻类照片：蓝版印象 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	英国藻类照片：蓝版印象
品名（英）	Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.557 (1–154)
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Anna Atkins【1799 至 1871】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1843 - 公元 1853
创作地区
分类	唱片集（Albums）
尺寸	图像: 25.3 x 20 厘米 (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 英寸) each
介绍（中）	第一本以摄影方式印刷和绘制插图的书《英国藻类照片》于1843年开始以分册形式出版，是摄影史上的一个里程碑。阿特金斯利用她自己收集或从其他业余科学家那里获得的标本，将湿藻类直接放在感光纸上，并将纸暴露在阳光下，制成了这些盘子。19世纪40年代，英国对藻类的研究才刚刚开始系统化，阿特金斯的命名法是基于威廉·哈维（William Harvey）的《英国藻类手册》（1841），她用自己的手给每个盘子贴上标签尽管艺术表达不是她的首要目标，但阿特金斯对这些"海洋之花"的视觉吸引力很敏感，并以富有想象力和优雅的构图将她的标本布置在页面上。将理性科学与艺术相结合，《英国藻类照片》是一本雄心勃勃、卓有成效的书，完全由氰型组成，这是约翰·赫歇尔爵士于1842年发明的一种工艺，建筑师长期以来一直使用这种工艺将他们的线条图复制为蓝图。
介绍（英）	The first book to be photographically printed and illustrated, Photographs of British Algae was published in fascicles beginning in 1843 and is a landmark in the history of photography. Using specimens she collected herself or received from other amateur scientists, Atkins made the plates by placing wet algae directly on light-sensitized paper and exposing the paper to sunlight. In the 1840s, the study of algae was just beginning to be systematized in Britain, and Atkins based her nomenclature on William Harvey's unillustrated Manual of British Algae (1841), labeling each plate in her own hand. Although artistic expression was not her primary goal, Atkins was sensitive to the visual appeal of these "flowers of the sea" and arranged her specimens on the page in imaginative and elegant compositions. Uniting rational science with art, Photographs of British Algae is an ambitious and effective book composed entirely of cyanotypes, a process invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel and long used by architects to duplicate their line drawings as blueprints.