[蒲公英种子] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[蒲公英种子]
品名（英）	[Dandelion Seeds]
入馆年号	2004年，2004.111
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	William Henry Fox Talbot【1800 至 1877】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1858
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	页: 15.1 x 11.3 厘米 (5 15/16 x 4 7/16 英寸) Plate: 12.5 x 9.4 厘米 (4 15/16 x 3 11/16 英寸) 图像: 10.5 x 7.6 厘米 (4 1/8 x 3 英寸)
介绍（中）	这一实验证据是塔尔博特"象形文字雕刻"产生照片结果的能力的一个很好的例子，可以使用打印机的墨水在印刷机上打印，这是一个比用光和化学物质制作的照片更持久的过程。就像塔尔博特最早的摄影作品一样，这里的图像是在没有相机帮助的情况下，通过将种子直接放在光敏板上并曝光，以摄影的方式转移到铜雕刻板上的。同样让人想起塔尔博特早期的实验，这张照片是塔尔博特毕生努力将他的各种摄影发明应用于植物学领域的一部分。塔尔博特在《贝尔托罗尼相册》中的一封信中写道："我认为我新发明的艺术将对植物学家有很大帮助"。这些用途在塔尔博特多年后发展他的照相凹版工艺时仍然突出；他在1863年指出，"如果这种雕刻术是在一百年前发明的，那么在植物学的萌芽时期，它将非常有用。"，"这将大大有助于现代植物学家确定这些作者想要的植物，这些作者的描述往往是错误的，就像许多谜团一样，事实证明这是科学的障碍，而不是优势。"
介绍（英）	This experimental proof is a fine example of the capacity of Talbot's "photoglyphic engraving" to produce photographic results that could be printed on a press, using printer's ink-a more permanent process than photographs made with light and chemicals. Like Talbot's earliest photographic examples, the image here was photographically transferred to the copper engraving plate by laying the seeds directly on the photosensitized plate and exposing it to light, without the aid of a camera. Equally reminiscent of Talbot's early experiments, this image is part of Talbot's lifelong effort to apply his various photographic inventions to the field of botany. In a letter tipped into the Bertoloni Album, Talbot wrote, "Je crois que ce nouvel art de mon invention sera d'un grand secours aux Botanistes" ("I think that my newly invented art will be a great help to botanists"). Such uses were still prominent in Talbot's thinking years later when developing his photogravure process; he noted in 1863 that "if this art [of photoglyphic engraving] had been invented a hundred years ago, it would have been very useful during the infancy of botany." Had early botanists been able to print fifty copies of each engraving, he continued, and had they sent them to distant colleagues, "it would have greatly aided modern botanists in determining the plants intended by those authors, whose descriptions are frequently so incorrect that they are like so many enigmas, and have proved a hindrance and not an advantage to science."