{"product_id":"anna-atkins-cyanotype","title":"Anna Atkins — Spiræa aruncus","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA plant's shadow, printed in light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTo make this, Anna Atkins laid a stalk of goat's-beard (\u003cem\u003eSpiræa aruncus\u003c\/em\u003e) on paper brushed with iron salts and left it in the sun. Where the plant blocked the light, the paper stayed white; everywhere else it turned Prussian blue. This is a \u003cstrong\u003ecyanotype\u003c\/strong\u003e — a photograph made without a camera, one of the earliest photographic processes. We chose it for a reason: a cyanotype is already a flat, two-tone print — white silhouette on blue — so it screenprints with total fidelity. The garment is the blue. The ink is the light. Nothing is redrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eAnna Atkins (1799–1871) was a British botanist and, by most accounts, the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs — \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e (1843), months before Fox Talbot's. She made hundreds of these blue impressions of algae, ferns, and flowers, turning a scientific record into images that still look like the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eAnna Atkins · \u003cem\u003eSpiræa aruncus\u003c\/em\u003e (goat's-beard), cyanotype · 1851–54 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2004.172 · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\" style=\"margin-top:6px\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFounders Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e · our launch price. $49 after the first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/atkins-the-first-photographs-were-blue\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1d4e6b;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566468708,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48720995582052,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48720995614820,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48720995647588,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48720995680356,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48720995713124,"sku":"SA-ATKINS-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/anna-atkins-cyanotype-1.jpg?v=1783890079","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/anna-atkins-cyanotype","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}