[按钮] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[按钮]
品名（英）	[Button]
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.78
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1840 - 公元 1859
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: Diameter 1.6 厘米 (5/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	这个微型银版显示两只手放在一本书上。这张照片被放置在一个两件套的镀金黄铜框架中，背面有一个环，用于缝制衣服。表壳设计带有简单凸起的装饰边框，是1830年至1850年在几个新英格兰工厂大规模生产的镀金金属纽扣的典型代表，例如康涅狄格州沃特伯里的斯科维尔制造公司，该公司也生产银版。这个按钮是20世纪80年代初在马萨诸塞州的一个跳蚤市场发现的美国出于政治目的使用纽扣始于18世纪，当时的纽扣宣称"独立"是被压迫的殖民者的目标，"总统万岁"是为了纪念乔治·华盛顿的就职典礼。但直到1828年安德鲁·杰克逊的总统竞选，也就是这张照片可能出现的20年前，这个按钮才成为美国选举的常规部分。从《杰克逊——真正的标准》到《我喜欢艾克》，无论有没有图片，政治按钮都发展成了一种典型的美国政治广告和个人表达方式多年来，这幅图像被认为代表了一个反奴隶制的主题，两只手一黑一白放在圣经上。如今，经过详细的数字成像，这张照片似乎只显示了一个人的手。因此，这个独特按钮的象征意义可以重新解释。
介绍（英）	This miniature daguerreotype shows two hands resting on a book. The photograph is set into a two-piece gold-washed brass frame with a loop on the reverse for sewing to a garment. The case design with its simple, raised ornamental border is typical of the gilt-metal buttons mass-produced from 1830 to 1850 in several New England factories such as the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut, which also manufactured daguerreotype plates. The button was discovered in the early 1980s in a flea market in Massachusetts. The use of buttons for political purposes in the United States began in the 1700s with buttons that proclaimed "Independence," as the goal of the oppressed colonists, and "Long Live the President," in honor of the inauguration of George Washington. But it was not until the 1828 presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson, just twenty years before the likely date of this photograph, that the button became a regular part of American elections. From "Jackson--True Standard" to "I Like Ike," the political button, both with and without pictures, developed into a characteristically American means of both political advertising and personal expression. For many years, the image was believed to represent an anti-slavery motif of two hands—one black, one white—resting on a Bible. Today, after detailed digital imaging, the photograph seems to show the hands of just one individual. The symbolic meaning of this unique button is thus open for reinterpretation.