Susanna Brown, curator of Photographs at the V&A, discusses striking blue nature studies by Anna Atkins, one of the world's first female photographers.
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Related resources:
The V&A’s online catalogue of these works:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O91281/papaver-orientale-photograph-atkins-anna/
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73152/title-page-of-ibritish-and-photograph-atkins-anna/
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