“世界上最漂亮的娃娃” - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	“世界上最漂亮的娃娃”
品名（英）	"The Prettiest Doll in the World"
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.636
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Lewis Carroll【1832 至 1898】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1870
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	7 3/4 x 5 13/16
介绍（中）	查尔斯·卢特维奇·道奇森（Charles Lutwidge Dodgson）牧师是牛津大学的数学教授，他的笔名刘易斯·卡罗尔（Lewis Carroll）更为人所知，他经常拍摄朋友的孩子穿着故事书服装，表演他作品中出现的各种奇妙场景。这张照片中的模特亚历山德拉·谢·基钦（Alexandra "Xie" Kitchin）在十一年中摆了五十多次姿势，经常拍摄受文学启发的图像。卡罗尔给这部作品起的标题是维多利亚时代流行作家查尔斯·金斯利（Charles Kingsley）的诗《失落的娃娃》的副歌。它讲述了一个孩子对她丢失的玩具的喜爱，尽管它遭受了损坏，但她还是找到了它并溺爱它。目前还不清楚谢燕益是想回忆起这个女孩还是她的洋娃娃，但从玻璃底片边缘剥离的乳液——卡罗尔在印刷过程中故意保留了这种乳液——勾勒出了她的固执，与童年想象中的戏剧相呼应。
介绍（英）	The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics professor at Oxford better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, often photographed friends’ children outfitted in storybook costumes, playacting the sorts of fantastic scenes that appear in his writing. The model in this photograph, Alexandra “Xie” Kitchin, posed more than fifty times over eleven years, frequently for images inspired by literature. The title Carroll gave this work is the refrain of the poem The Lost Doll by the popular Victorian author Charles Kingsley. It tells of a child’s affection for her lost toy, which she finds and dotes on in spite of damage it has suffered. It is unclear whether Xie is meant to recall the girl or her doll, but the emulsion peeling from the edges of the glass negative—which Carroll purposefully retained during printing—frames her obstinance, a visual echo of the dramas played out in childhood imagination.