[儿童钓鱼] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[儿童钓鱼]
品名（英）	[Children Fishing]
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.113
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	William James Mullins【1860 至 1917】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1899 - 公元 1901
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 9.1 x 25.7厘米 (3 9/16 x 10 1/8英寸) Mount: 9.8 × 26.4 厘米 (3 7/8 英寸 × 10 3/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	宾夕法尼亚州富兰克林市的William Mullins是照片分离派的一名小成员。1898年，他参加了宾夕法尼亚美术学院的费城摄影沙龙，这是美国第一个在公认的美术机构举办的摄影展。该展览由包括阿尔弗雷德·斯蒂格利茨在内的两名画家和三名摄影师组成，是第一个仅以艺术价值展出照片的展览，完全放弃了流派、风景或肖像等特定类别。穆林斯的作品出现在1901年10月的《相机笔记》上，但他最大的公众成就是1910年在纽约水牛城奥尔布赖特美术馆举行的国际画报摄影展上展出了他的12张照片，不断变化的表面是对艺术家绘画技巧的完美考验。表面波纹造成的优雅扭曲出现在这一时期的一张又一张照片中，但很少有照片能像这张儿童钓鱼的照片那样构建得很好。穆林斯将他的版画裁剪成一条狭窄的矩形条纹，强调了未受影响的平静水域。较低的相机位置将垂钓者与远处的海岸联系起来——一排像竹竿一样不规则的树——而他们的头像湖面上的漂浮物一样漂浮在地平线上。
介绍（英）	William Mullins, of Franklin, Pennsylvania, was a minor member of the Photo-Secession. He was included in the Philadelphia Photographic Salon at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1898, the first exhibition of photography in America held at a recognized fine arts institution. Juried by two painters and three photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, the show was the first to exhibit photographs solely for their artistic merit, completely abandoning specific categories such as genre, landscape, or portraiture. Mullins's work appeared in the October 1901 issue of "Camera Notes," but his greatest public achievement was the display of twelve of his photographs in the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in 1910. Water was nature's living mirror to members of the Photo-Secession, a reflective, ever-changing surface that served as a perfect test of an artist's pictorial skills. Elegant distortions caused by surface ripples appear in picture after picture from the period, but few photographs are as well constructed as this one of children fishing. By cropping his print to a narrow rectangular strip, Mullins emphasized the uninflected expanse of placid water. The low camera position relates the anglers to the distant shore--a line of trees as irregular as their bamboo poles--while their heads float above the horizon like bobbers on the lake's surface.