The article below discusses Atkins' contribution as the producer of the
first published cyanotype photograms, as well as Talbot's
_The_Pencil_of_Nature_:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa060302a.htm
There is also an incredibly thorough discussion of the calotype process:
Ellis replied:
Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic
(shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of the article
placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves Talbots book to be the first to
provide photographs as recognisable images.
This is Pandora's photographic box we are
