[家庭组] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[家庭组]
品名（英）	[Family Group]
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.93
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1861 - 公元 1865
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 28.9 x 39.5 厘米 (11 3/8 x 15 9/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	尽管对内战摄影的研究很多，但仍有一些重要的照片知之甚少。这幅正式的肖像画是一个富裕家庭，有两个军事警卫和一个黑人仆人，就是一个很好的例子。在小组中可以检测到的轻微紧张和尴尬，以及警卫的存在，表明父亲不在。一名警卫戴着刻有"美国"的联邦军腰带扣，建筑暗示了弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市和华盛顿特区乔治敦区的优雅住宅。但是，是什么导致了这种庄严的形象仍然是一个谜。在一个以常规蛋白银版画为主的时代，这种异常大的盐渍纸印刷品暗示了纽约或华盛顿更好的工作室之一的作品。亚历山大·加德纳（Alexander Gardner）是一位可能的摄影师，他为马修·布雷迪（Mathew Brady）创作的肖像作品经常用盐渍纸印刷，与欧洲最好的摄影师的作品相媲美。也许印刷品底部中心的铭文"No 5"最终将有助于解开这张令人难以忘怀的照片的谜团。
介绍（英）	Although Civil War photography has been much studied, there are still important photographs about which little is known. This formal portrait of a well-to-do family with two military guards and a black servant is a good example. The slight tension and awkwardness detectable in the group, as well as the presence of the guards, points to the absence of the father. One guard wears a Union Army belt buckle inscribed "U.S.," and the architecture suggests the elegant homes of Alexandria, Virginia, and the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C. But what occasioned this solemn image remains a mystery. In an era dominated by routine albumen silver prints, this exceptionally large salted paper print suggests the work of one of the better New York or Washington studios. A likely photographer is Alexander Gardner, whose portrait work for Mathew Brady was often executed in salted paper prints rivaling those made by the best European photographers. Perhaps the inscription, "No 5," at the bottom center of the print will ultimately help solve the mystery of this haunting photograph.