[残疾联邦士兵在纽约大都会博览会上为协助美国卫生委员会摆姿势] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[残疾联邦士兵在纽约大都会博览会上为协助美国卫生委员会摆姿势]
品名（英）	[Disabled Union Soldiers Posed in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at the New York Metropolitan Fair]
入馆年号	2019年，2019.528
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	J. Gurney & Son【1860 至 1874】
创作年份	公元 1864
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	8.9 x 5.6 厘米 (3 1/2 x 2 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	私人资助的美国卫生委员会成立于1861年6月，主要由女性志愿者构思和管理，帮助士兵支付欠薪和其他与康复有关的后勤需求。它通过捐款和举办向公众收费的卫生博览会筹集资金，并向战场和营地医院分发物资。1864年4月的纽约大都会博览会筹集了超过17.8万美元。它展示了最近缴获的邦联武器和一个"图片画廊"，其中包括从该市最优秀的收藏中借来的绘画和雕塑，以及受阿尔伯特·比尔斯塔特、阿舍·B·杜兰德和约翰·F·肯塞特委托创作的作品，他们是那个时代最重要的艺术家之一一些游客选择以更直接的方式支持爱国事业，他们购买了受伤士兵的单点参观肖像，这些士兵在博览会上摆出姿势，作为生活画面的一部分。正如加德纳在奥沙利文的照片《死亡的收获》中观察到的那样，这里的三名联邦士兵是"战争的空白恐怖和现实，与战争的壮观相反"的幸存者代表。1863年5月3日，马萨诸塞州第二步兵团的盲人威廉·R·穆奇在弗吉尼亚州尚塞勒斯维尔战役中头部中弹，双眼失明。战前，在马萨诸塞州的林恩，他是一名摄影师。
介绍（英）	Organized in June 1861 and conceived and managed primarily by female volunteers, the privately funded United States Sanitary Commission helped soldiers with back pay and other logistical needs related to their convalescence. It raised money and distributed supplies to battlefield and camp hospitals through donations and hosting sanitary fairs that charged admission to the public. The April 1864 New York Metropolitan Fair raised more than $178,000. It featured a presentation of recently captured Confederate weapons and a “Picture Gallery” that included loans of paintings and sculptures from the city’s finest collections as well as works commissioned from Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, and John F. Kensett, among the most important artists of the era. Some visitors chose to support the patriotic cause in an even more direct way by purchasing carte-de-visite portraits of wounded soldiers who posed during the fair as part of a living tableau. The three Union soldiers here were survivor-representatives of “the blank horror and reality of war, in opposition to its pageantry,” as Gardner observed of the corpses in O’Sullivan’s photograph A Harvest of Death. The blind man, William R. Mudge, Second Massachusetts Infantry, was shot through the head and lost both eyes at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 3, 1863. In Lynn, Massachusetts, before the war, he had been a photographer.