Bill Atkinson

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BILL ATKINSON

Bill Atkinson has achieved distinction as an innovator in the fields of nature photography, printmaking, computer science and neuroscience. Atkinson came to photography from computer science, to which he in turn came from neuroscience.

In 1978, he was recruited by Apple Computer out of the University of Washington, where he was developing a computer atlas of the primate brain. As a member of the original Macintosh development team, he designed and implemented much of the Mac’s revolutionary mouse-based graphical user interface including pull-down menus and the original QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard software.

Atkinson has developed a digital printing method that harnesses the latest computer technologies to empower the photographer with a higher degree of artistic control than has ever been possible before. His photographic subject matter ranges from traditional landscape views and stunning floral portraits to this latest body of abstract work Atkinson refers to as “Stonescapes.” Atkinson has shared his methods with many professional photographers, including Charles Cramer, Jack Dykinga, Pat O’Hara, Frans Lanting, and the late Galen Rowell. Atkinson and Cramer teach fine-art printing workshops and have trained over two hundred photographers. Atkinson is the great-great-grandnephew of James Dwight Dana, the father of American Mineralogy. WITHIN THE STONE is the first book of photography to showcase Atkinson’s avant-garde digital method.