Conferva vesicata c. 1843 - 1853

"Conferva vesicata" is a cyanotype photograph created by Anna Atkins between 1843 and 1853. This image is one of many in Atkins’s book "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions". Atkins, a pioneer of photography, employed the cyanotype process, a method that uses light-sensitive iron salts to create blue and white images. The image showcases the delicate beauty of the Conferva vesicata algae, its intricate structure rendered in stark detail against a deep blue background.