Anna Atkins Is The Subject Of Monday's Google Doodle

Google has marked 216th birthday of the noted English botanist and photographer - Anna Atkins - via its doodle. Atkins is known to be the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images, while some also claim she was the first woman to create a photograph.

She is known for her haunting photographs of a unlikely subject: British algae. Vox noted that her work changed botany and photography, and managed to make a piece of art that still moves viewers today.

Born in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom in 1799, Atkins "received an unusually scientific education for a woman of her time."

Later she became friends with William Henry Fox Talbot, the British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process and Atkins learnt the craft with help from Talbot. Eventually, she self-published her photograms in the first installment of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843.

Copies of Anna Atkins' work is now held at the British Library in London, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the New York Public Library, the Royal Society in London, Victoria & Albert Museum London, and the Linnean Society of London, NDTV noted.