PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Anna Atkins

1799-1871

A friend of Henry Fox Talbot, Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She published Photographs Of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book with photographic illustrations, and some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815-1879

With a position in Victorian England’s high society, she captured many legendary figures in her short career, which started at the age of 48. She often posed