Art and science came together

The pencil of nature was a book created by henry fox talbot and is the first book to contain photographs before anna atkins. The book was created during 1844-6 and includes 24 colotypes of his own work which shows still life images and was considered the first part of documentary photography.

George phillips bond and john adam whipple came together to create extraordinary images the most famous being a photo from 1851 called open door. To take this image it is possible that they used a jupiter camera.

Anna atkins created a documentry book based on the shapes and structures of plants called 'photographs of british algae'.