麦克弗森将军死亡现场 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	麦克弗森将军死亡现场
品名（英）	Scene of General McPherson's Death
入馆年号	1970年，1970.525 (35)
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	George N. Barnard【1819 至 1902】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1864 - 公元 1866
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 25.4 × 36.1 厘米 (10 × 14 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	乔治·N·巴纳德于1866年11月出版了这本观点集，也就是亚历山大·加德纳出版《素描本》的十个月后。这两卷书合在一起是19世纪美国摄影的基础出版物。一种是由多位艺术家在四年的时间里拍摄的照片融合而成；另一幅是一位艺术家的作品，他在战争的最后几个月跟踪了一位将军和他的军队的战役<1864年7月22日，联邦将军詹姆斯·伯德西·麦克弗森在树林附近被枪杀。麦克弗森是1853年西点军校的第一名，深受谢尔曼将军的钦佩和信任，他是南北战争期间唯一一位在战斗中牺牲的联邦军队指挥官。巴纳德像画家一样构建了这张照片，通过操纵骨骼、修剪树叶，并去除任何可能干扰正确纪念肖像的心理意义的分散注意力的细节。树木的屏幕变成了一个简单但有用的背景，一个幕幕，展现了这片最小的生死景观。
介绍（英）	George N. Barnard released this volume of views in November 1866, ten months after Alexander Gardner published his Sketch Book. Together, the two volumes are the foundational publications of nineteenth-century American photography. One is an amalgamation of photographs by multiple artists made over a period of four years; the other is the work of a single artist who followed the campaign of one general and his army in the final months of the war. On July 22, 1864, Union General James Birdseye McPherson was shot off his mount near the woods seen here. First in his West Point class of 1853 and keenly admired and trusted by General Sherman, McPherson was the only commander of a federal army during the Civil War to die in battle. Barnard constructed the photograph as a painter might, by manipulating the bones, trimming the foliage, and removing any distracting details that could interfere with the psychological meaning of a proper memorial portrait. The screen of trees became a simple but useful backdrop, a curtain for this minimal landscape of life and death.