弗洛拉·兰金、艾琳·麦克唐纳和玛丽·约瑟芬·麦克唐纳 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	弗洛拉·兰金、艾琳·麦克唐纳和玛丽·约瑟芬·麦克唐纳
品名（英）	Flora Rankin, Irene MacDonald, and Mary Josephine MacDonald at Elm Lodge
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.22
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Lewis Carroll【1832 至 1898】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1863
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	22.2 x 18 厘米 (8 3/4 x 7 1/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	艾琳和玛丽麦克唐纳是苏格兰小说家和诗人乔治麦克唐纳的五个孩子中的两个。卡罗尔是家里的朋友，孩子们亲切地称他为"叔叔"。正是麦克唐纳向麦克唐纳阅读了《爱丽丝历险记》的手稿，并敦促他出版这部作品。卡罗尔多次拍摄了这家人的照片。这张照片包括站在中间的儿童朋友弗洛·兰金（Flo Rankin），拍摄于1863年7月25日这一周摄影师在汉普斯特德的榆树小屋逗留期间拍摄的。当不伪装他的保姆时，卡罗尔更喜欢拍摄他们穿着日常服装自然摆姿势。也许弗洛在访问时穿着的精致礼服促使卡罗尔创作了这件不寻常的布景，它暗示了波提切利春天中的弗洛拉形象以及他的拉斐尔前派画家朋友但丁·加布里埃尔·罗塞蒂和亚瑟·休斯的神话化作品。排列在野花中的年轻女孩象征着童年的纯洁和纯真，这是维多利亚时代所珍视的概念。然而，镜头在不知不觉中谴责了这样一个未受玷污的宇宙的自负。弗洛·兰金（Flo Rankin）的形象可能被装饰成小时候，但这是一个确定自己吸引力的年轻女子，她将目光锁定在观众身上，嘴唇上露出讽刺的微笑。
介绍（英）	Irene and Mary MacDonald were two of the five children of Scottish novelist and poet George MacDonald. Carroll was a friend of the family, and the children affectionately called him "Uncle." It was the MacDonalds to whom he read the manuscript of The Adventures of Alice and who urged him to publish the work. Carroll photographed the family on several occasions. This photograph, which includes the children's friend Flo Rankin standing in the middle, was produced during the photographer's stay at Elm Lodge in Hampstead the week of July 25, 1863. When not disguising his sitters, Carroll preferred to photograph them posing naturally in everyday attire. Perhaps the elaborate dress Flo was wearing on her visit prompted Carroll to create this unusual set piece, which alludes to the figure of Flora in Botticelli's Spring and to the mythologizing work of his Pre-Raphaelite painter friends Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Hughes. Young girls arrayed in wildflowers signified the purity and innocence of childhood, a concept dear to the Victorians. The lens, however, has unwittingly denounced the conceit of such an unsullied universe. The figure of Flo Rankin may be adorned as a child, but it is a young woman sure of her appeal who locks gazes with the viewer, on her lips the ironic flutter of a smile.