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INSIDE THE FRAME - Spotlight on herbaria

INSIDE THE FRAME – Spotlight on herbaria

Just as cultural institutions are reopening their doors, Blind explores museum collections and takes a closer look at some historical photographs. Today, we focus on a cyanotype by the British photographer Anna Atkins which is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

It almost feels like going back to childhood, to a time of handmade herbariums, leaves and flowers pressed like hard-won treasures between the crinkled pages of a notebook. This blue herbarium, however, has been assembled by an expert and seasoned ha...

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