Ellis replied: "........Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic (shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of the article placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves Talbots book to be the first to provide photographs as recognisable images".
This is Pandora's photographic box we are lifting the lid on Ellis - It all comes down to how inclusive one's definition of what a 'photograph' is. I'm totally in awe of Anna Atkin's remarkable achievement - to print and publish a book, photographically illustrated with 424 photogram-cyanotype images in 1843. Ray
