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The photo book "Sun Gardens -Cyanotypes of Anna Atkins-" by Anna Atkins (1799-1871), a British botanist and photographer. Atkins is known as a pioneer of botanical photography and is also known for publishing "Photographs of British Algae" in 1843, which is said to have been the first photo to be inserted. In 1842, Sir John Herschel, who was also a friend of Atkins, invented the classic technique of photography, sianotype (Nikko photography), and Atkins also used sianotypes to project dry algae and plants. I did. It is also called a blueprint because it appears as a shade of blue depending on the brightness of the light, but plants with a delicate structure that allows light to pass through appear as a very fantastic image. This book is a collection of works published in conjunction with the Atkins exhibition held from October 2018 at the New York Public Library. It is a nostalgic content, and Atkins' work is introduced with abundant illustrations from drawings and landscape paintings of creatures before Sianotype to Sianotype with unique beauty of cyan blue. ..