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Tracy Calder reports on the A World History of Women Photographers book that celebrates some of the best women photographers in history

James Tralies images are windows into the imagination: otherworldly aquatic dreamscapes and relaxing, plant-filled environments.

The early pioneers of photography had no intentions of changing the world, or the medium itself. Even at the time of a discovery, they may not have realised the gravity of their finding. Whether it was Wilson Bentley or Étienne-Jules Marey—both were drawn to very different subjects—it was curiosity, and a certain desire and eagerness, that had them push the camera towards its absolute extreme, in order to unravel what one could and couldn’t do with it. Or take Dorothea Lange or Walker Ev...

Alex Merola shares a list of the most influential, boundary-breaking photo books created by women, spanning from 1843 to 1999

IT is a building which has reinvented itself on many occasions having previously been a home, a bank and a library.

… In the mid-19th century, Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype, an intricate photographic process that uses iron compounds to create prints with a lustrous blue hue. His close friend Anna Atkins, an amateur botanist who took particular interest in scientific illustration and taxonomy, decided to use the new technique to document algae from her extensive seaweed collection, resulting in ethereal, highly detailed illustrations rendered in wispy shades of white set against a radiant cyan ba...