The article below discusses Atkins' contribution as the producer of the
first published cyanotype photograms, as well as Talbot's
_The_Pencil_of_Nature_:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa060302a.htm
There is also an incredibly thorough discussion of the calotype process:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa052002a.htm
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> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?
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> As I understand the article, 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.
> Ellis
>
>
> > Regarding John Ptak's post - I don't know the answer but my first
> > impulse was to access Robert Leggat's 'History of Photography'
> > http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
> > a fantastic resource - there may be additional clues there.
> > I too was under the misapprehension that Fox Talbots 'Pencil of
> > Nature'
> was
> > the first photographically illustrated publication - not so
> it seems,
> > go
> see
> > significant people: ATKINS, Anna
> > Ray
>
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