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品名（中）	马达加斯加Antsahatiroa视图
品名（英）	View of Antsahatsiroa, Madagascar
入馆年号	2000年，2000.608
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者	William Ellis【1794 至 1872】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1862 - 公元 1865
创作地区	马达加斯加, 安萨哈齐罗阿（Madagascar, Antsahatsiroa）
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	7 1/2 x 6 1/2 英寸 (19.1 x 16.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	威廉·埃利斯牧师是伦敦传教士协会的杰出成员，他拍摄了这幅马达加斯加Antsahatsiroa的精美景色。我们从西蒙·皮尔斯的出版物中了解了很多关于他的生活和照片。19世纪20年代初，埃利斯在夏威夷和塔希提岛建立了自己的声誉，是第一个在这些地方用当地语言翻译、印刷和插图基督教经文的欧洲人。1853年，埃利斯在伦敦听说马达加斯加的统治者再次对传教士友好，他准备前往那里参加社会活动（他最终访问了三次）。埃利斯充分意识到印刷文字和图像的力量，那一年，59岁的他接受了摄影。他在伦敦接受了著名摄影师罗杰·芬顿的技术建议。在马达加斯加，埃利斯加入了他的社会同事詹姆斯·卡梅伦的行列。詹姆斯·卡梅伦是一名摄影师，1826年，他是第一批前往该岛的英国传教士之一，现在能流利地说马达加斯加语。1853-54年，埃利斯第一次尝试用相机拜访塔那那利佛的统治者，但没有成功，但他于1856年返回首都，为马达加斯加的一些皇室成员拍摄肖像。埃利斯不是第一个在首都拍照的传教士，但可能仅次于耶稣会士菲纳兹神父。然而，这些银版从未被找到；因此，埃利斯拍摄的马达加斯加照片是现存最早的。
介绍（英）	Reverend William Ellis, a prominent member of the London Missionary Society, made this exquisite view of Antsahatsiroa, Madagascar. We know a great deal about his life and photographs from the publications of Simon Peers. Ellis established his reputation in Hawaii and Tahiti during the early 1820s and was the first European in those places to translate, print, and illustrate Christian scriptures in local languages. In London, in 1853, Ellis heard that the rulers of Madagascar were again amicable to missionaries, and he prepared to travel there for the society (he eventually visited three times). Ellis was fully aware of the power of the printed word and image, and that year, at the age of fifty-nine, he embraced photography. He received technical advice in London from the prominent photographer Roger Fenton. In Madagascar Ellis joined his society colleague James Cameron, a photographer who had been among the first group of British missionaries to travel to the island in 1826 and was now fluent in the Malagasy language. Ellis's first attempts in 1853-54 to visit the rulers at Antananarivo with a camera were not successful, but he returned to the capital in 1856 to make portraits of some of Madagascar's royalty. Ellis was not the first missionary to take photographs in the capital but was possibly second to a Jesuit, Father Finaz. However, those daguerreotypes have never been located; thus Ellis's photographs of Madagascar are some of the earliest in existence.