These cyanotype photograms are made without a camera. Pressed flowers and feathers are laid directly onto watercolor paper coated with light-sensitive iron salts and exposed to the sun, leaving each specimen’s silhouette in white against the deep Prussian blue the process is known for. The technique dates to 1842, and Cyanotype pioneer Anna Atkins used it to catalog the algae of the British Isles as photograms — considered the first book illustrated using a photographic process. Every print here is a contact print, one-of-a-kind: the exposure varies with the weather and the hour, and the flowers and feathers never lay down twice the same way.
All works are one of a kind Cyanotype prints on watercolor paper.
