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品名（中）	混沌之路，圣索维尔
品名（英）	Sentier du chaos, St-Sauveur
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.503.8
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Joseph Vigier【1821 至 1862】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1853
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 9 13/16 × 14 1/2 英寸 (24.9 × 36.9 厘米) 页: 12 英寸 × 18 9/16 英寸 (30.5 × 47.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	1853年夏天，维吉尔子爵花了两个月的时间在比利牛斯山脉拍摄。他从古斯塔夫·勒·格雷（Gustave Le Gray）那里学到了蜡纸工艺，但更喜欢塔尔博特的原始技术，因为它的明暗对比强烈。当维吉尔于l854年在伦敦和巴黎展示他的观点时，他们受到了高度赞扬。这些比利牛斯山脉的第一张照片吸引了英国人的崇高品味和法国浪漫的气质。他们的接待也受益于在冒险的病人中在山间水疗中心治疗的时尚。然而，在这本罕见的二十四页相册中，很少有照片显示旅游设施;在峡谷和山峰的众多景观中，最令人印象深刻的描绘了加瓦尼的混乱，这是一个巨大而荒凉的原始岩石圆形剧场。这张滑动的对角线和无法缓解的紧张感的图片显示了维吉尔如何有力地编排他的基本材料。他选择了自己的有利位置，以便侵入人行道的岩石和地平线上岌岌可危的巨石似乎还在移动。与天空和岩石形成鲜明对比的维吉尔的照片有力地证明了一场如此遥远的斗争，以至于发生在时间之初——天地诞生的地质混乱。
介绍（英）	In the summer of 1853, Viscount Vigier spent two months photographing in the Pyrenees. He had learned the waxed paper process from Gustave Le Gray but preferred Talbot's original technique for its strong contrasts of light and dark. When Vigier exhibited his views in London and Paris in l854, they were highly acclaimed. These first photographs of the Pyrenees appealed to the English taste for the sublime and to the French romantic temperament. Their reception also benefited from the vogue for cures at mountain spas among the adventurous ailing. Few of the photographs in this rare album of twenty-four pages show tourist amenities, however; of the many views of gorges and peaks, the most impressive depict the Chaos of Gavarni, a vast, desolate amphitheater of raw rock. This picture of sliding diagonals and unrelieved tension shows how powerfully Vigier could orchestrate his basic materials. He chose his vantage point so that the rock intruding on the footpath and the precarious boulder on the horizon would seem to be moving, still. Starkly contrasting sky and rock, Vigier's picture provides forceful evidence of a struggle so remote as to have occurred at the beginning of time--the geological chaos from which heaven and earth were born.