上层画廊 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	上层画廊
品名（英）	The Upper Gallery
入馆年号	1952年，52.639.34
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Philip Henry Delamotte【1821 至 1889】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1854
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 27.5 x 23.2 厘米 (10 13/16 x 9 1/8 英寸) Mount: 52.2 x 36.8 厘米 (20 9/16 x 14 1/2 英寸)
介绍（中）	这幅画描绘了1854年水晶宫上层画廊的重建。约瑟夫·帕克斯顿爵士（Sir Joseph Paxton）的玻璃和铁结构是预制建筑的第一个例子，最初建于1851年，用于举办"万国工业作品大展览"，这是一个庞大的展览，展示了世界各地的技术奇迹和历史展品。该建筑的模块化结构——螺栓连接的铁制品，配有90万英尺的预切割玻璃——现代得令人震惊，其外观直接揭示了其建造的材料和过程。事实证明，水晶宫非常受观众欢迎，以至于它在伦敦南部的锡德纳姆被拆解和重建，在1936年被大火烧毁之前，它一直被用作博物馆和音乐厅。 Delamotte拍摄的水晶宫重建照片是该媒体为记录现代工程奇迹而创作的首批摄影图像之一。这张照片的设计源于结构铁制品的快速衰退，似乎反映了新媒体捕捉现代性到来的内在能力，也许是独特的能力。
介绍（英）	This picture depicts the reconstruction of the upper gallery of the Crystal Palace in 1854. The first example of prefabricated architecture, Sir Joseph Paxton's glass and iron structure was originally built in 1851 to house "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations", a mammoth exposition of technological marvels and historical exhibits from around the world. The building's modular structure--bolted ironwork fitted with 900,000 feet of precut glass--was shockingly modern, its appearance directly revealing the materials and process of its construction. The Crystal Palace proved so popular with spectators that it was disassembled and rebuilt in Sydenham, south of London, where it was used as a museum and concert hall until its destruction by fire in 1936. Delamotte's pictures of the Crystal Palace's reconstruction are among the medium's first photographic images created to document the marvels of modern engineering. Its design generated by the speeding recession of the structure's ironwork, this photograph seems to reflect the new medium's inherent and perhaps unique ability to capture the advent of modernity.