俄勒冈州哥伦比亚河合恩角 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	俄勒冈州哥伦比亚河合恩角
品名（英）	Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.493
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Carleton E. Watkins【1829 至 1916】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1867
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 52.1 x 39 厘米 (20 1/2 x 15 3/8 英寸) Frame: 76.2 x 63.5 厘米 (30 x 25 英寸)
介绍（中）	沃特金斯是美国西部最完美的摄影师，他将对高难度湿版底片工艺的精湛掌握与严谨的画面结构感结合在一起。对于像沃特金斯这样在俄勒冈州哥伦比亚河沿岸制作的大型景观作品来说，物理需求很大。由于还没有实际的放大方法，沃特金斯的玻璃底片必须像他希望的那样大，他的相机也必须足够大才能容纳它们。此外，玻璃底片必须进行涂布、曝光和显影，而火棉胶仍然很粘，这需要摄影师在探索美国西部崎岖的原始地形时运送一个旅行暗室。沃特金斯非凡的"猛犸"版画的水晶般的清晰度在他同时代的任何作品中都是无与伦比的，今天很少有艺术家能接触到它。
介绍（英）	Watkins, the consummate photographer of the American West, combined a virtuoso mastery of the difficult wet plate negative process with a rigorous sense of pictorial structure. For large-format landscape work such as Watkins produced along the Columbia River in Oregon, the physical demands were great. Since there was as yet no practical means of enlarging, Watkins's glass negatives had to be as large as he wished the prints to be, and his camera large enough to accommodate them. Furthermore, the glass negatives had to be coated, exposed, and developed while the collodion remained tacky, requiring the photographer to transport a traveling darkroom as he explored the rugged virgin terrain of the American West. The crystalline clarity of Watkins's remarkable "mammoth" prints is unmatched in the work of any of his contemporaries and is approached by few artists working today.