Science Behind the Scenery Program American Playground-Images of Rocky Mountain National Park

《风景背后的科学》之美国游乐场-落基山国家公园图像

Date: August 7, 2007

时间：2007年8月7日

Contact: Kyle Patterson, 970-586-1363

联系人：凯尔·帕特森，970-586-1363

Rocky Mountain National Park’s spectacular landscapes have been the subject of artists, photographers and writers since the opening of the American west in the nineteenth century. Moreover, throughout the twentieth century, anonymous visitors captured the park through images now harbored in family photo albums, home movies and videos. This rich compendium of visual representations records an evolving dialogue of cultural attitudes about the park. When coupled with supporting textual materials – the few lines on the back of a postcard, a journal entry, a geologic survey summary, a hiker’s narrative - the images become an evocative point of entry into a history of the park and the visitors who recorded it. Join Ann Komara at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium on Thursday, August 16, at 7:30 p.m. as she explains reception theory and shares her favorite images of the park found during her study. This program is part of the Science Behind the Scenery Series.

自19世纪美国西部开放以来，落基山国家公园的壮丽景观一直是艺术家，摄影师和作家创作的主题。此外，在整个20世纪，不知名的游客们通过照片留下了这座公园的景色，这些照片保存在家里的相册、电影和视频中 。这一丰富的影视汇编记录了关于该公园文化态度的不断发展的对话。当这些图片与文字（如明信片背面的几行字、日记、地质调查总结、徒步者的叙述）相结合时，它们就成为了一个唤醒人们情感的切入点，让人得以了解公园的历史以及记录它的游客。8月16日（周四）晚上 7：30，在海狸草原游客中心礼堂举办了讲座，大家可以与安·科马拉一起探讨接受理论，并分享她在研究该公园时发现的最喜欢的图片。这个节目是“风景背后的科学”系列的一部分。

Visual materials like postcards, albums, and brochures not only offer a visual history of the park over time, they allow the public to better understand the role of landscape images as they record and influence attitudes and behaviors. This interpretation assumes that images “re-present” place; that they register intentions and frame or shape impressions about place for others to “receive”-- to read and consume.

明信片、相册和宣传册等视觉材料不仅提供了公园随着时间推移而变化的视觉历史，还让公众能够更深入了解风景图片在记录和影响态度和行为方面的作用。这是对用图片“重现”故地的阐释;它们表露其心意，并为他人构建或塑造了关于故地的印象，以便他人“接收”——即阅读和消费。

This program is free and open to the public. For more information about Rocky Mountain National Park please call the park’s information office at (970) 586-1206.

该活动是免费向公众开放的。如需了解有关落基山国家公园的更多信息，请致电公园信息办公室：（970）586-1206。