密谋者的处决 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	密谋者的处决
品名（英）	Execution of the Conspirators
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.251
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Alexander Gardner【1821 至 1882】【美国人、苏格兰人】
创作年份	公元 1865
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 16.8 x 24.2 厘米 (6 5/8 x 9 1/2 英寸)
介绍（中）	亚历山大·加德纳（Alexander Gardner）对林肯总统遇刺后事件的密切参与，即使是二十世纪最有经验的摄影记者也会受到挑战。在短短四个月的时间里，加德纳记录了数百幅肖像和观点，这是美国历史上最复杂的国家新闻报道之一。美国特勤局为加德纳提供了任何其他摄影师无法进入的个人和地点的无限制访问权。除了一张布斯尸体的肖像外，加德纳可以自由地保留他的所有底片，试图出售整个图片故事的全权委托和大幅面印刷品。美国仍然在四年战争中受伤，对此不太感兴趣。然而，1865 年 7 月 7 日处决玛丽·苏拉特、刘易斯·潘恩、大卫·赫罗德和乔治·阿泽罗特的照片受到 1880 年代开始的内战蜉蝣早期收藏家的高度追捧。这张照片显示了旧阿森纳监狱院子里脚手架上的最后准备工作。那天非常热，坐在舞台最左边的玛丽·苏拉特（Mary Surratt）遮住了遮阳伞。（她将成为美国第一位被绞死的女性。驻扎在舞台下的两名士兵抓住支撑绞刑架活板门的窄梁。左边的士兵后来承认他刚刚呕吐，因为高温和紧张。只有一个绞索可见，略偏左的苏拉特;其他三个绞索在曝光期间移动，相机仅记录为微弱的模糊。神职人员挤在舞台上，向阴谋者提供最后的建议。受邀嘉宾的私人观众站在左下角。加德纳暴露几分钟后，阴谋者被绑起来蒙住眼睛，并下令击倒支撑梁。
介绍（英）	Alexander Gardner's intimate involvement in the events following President Lincoln's assassination would have challenged even the most experienced twentieth-century photojournalist. In just short of four months, Gardner documented in hundreds of portraits and views one of the most complex national news stories in American history. The U.S. Secret Service provided Gardner unlimited access to individuals and places unavailable to any other photographer. Free to retain all but one of his negatives-a portrait of Booth's corpse-Gardner attempted to sell carte-de-visite and large-format prints of the whole picture story. America, still wounded from the four-year war, was less than interested. The photographs of the execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865, were, however, highly sought after by early collectors of Civil War ephemera beginning in the 1880s. This photograph shows the final preparations on the scaffolding in the yard of the Old Arsenal Prison. The day was extremely hot and a parasol shades Mary Surratt, seated at the far left of the stage. (She would become the first woman in America to be hanged.) Two soldiers stationed beneath the stage grasp the narrow beams that hold up the gallows trapdoors. The soldier on the left would later admit he had just vomited, from heat and tension. Only one noose is visible, slightly to the left of Surratt; the other three nooses moved during the exposure and are registered by the camera only as faint blurs. Members of the clergy crowd the stage and provide final counsel to the conspirators. A private audience of invited guests stands at the lower left. Minutes after Gardner's exposure, the conspirators were tied and blindfolded and the order was given to knock out the support beams.