Cawnpore Suttee Ghat - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Cawnpore Suttee Ghat
品名（英）	Suttee Ghat, Cawnpore
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.945
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	John Murray【1809 至 1898】【英国、苏格兰人】
创作年份	公元 1858
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 33 x 43.1 厘米 (13 x 16 15/16 英寸) Mount: 40.3 x 51.6 厘米 (15 7/8 x 20 5/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	这张照片纪念了印度兵变中最令人震惊的事件发生地。1857年6月26日，驻扎在坎普尔Cawnpore的一支被围困的英国分遣队在战斗中选择了平民的安全而非荣誉，向叛军投降，承诺他们和在军营避难的欧洲家庭将获得安全通道。相反，士兵和平民在这个地方登船时都遭到了枪击，幸存的200名妇女和儿童被带回了Cawnpore，被屠杀、肢解并扔下了一口井。这些可怕的事件反过来又导致了英国人无端的残酷报复行为。在默里那张黯淡、光线刺眼的照片中，这两位本土人物有一种难以言喻的悲伤，他们的孤独不再传达出人类的规模，而是将印第安人和英国人分隔开来的身体和情感距离。
介绍（英）	This photograph memorializes the site of the most shocking event of the Indian Mutiny. Choosing the safety of civilians over honor in battle, a besieged English detachment at Cawnpore (Kanpur) surrendered to rebels on June 26, 1857, on the promise that they and the European families who had taken refuge in their barracks would be granted safe passage. Instead, soldiers and civilians alike were fired upon as they boarded boats at this very spot, and the two hundred women and children who survived were led back to Cawnpore, slaughtered, dismembered, and thrown down a well. These horrific events, in turn, led to gratuitously brutal acts of retribution by the British. In Murray's bleak, harshly backlit photograph, there is something ineffably sad about the two native figures whose solitude no longer conveys human scale but rather the physical and emotional distance that had come to separate the Indians and the British.