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品名（中）	Raharla，女王大臣
品名（英）	Raharla, Minister to the Queen
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.73
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Désiré Charnay【1828 至 1915】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1863
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 19.4 × 12 厘米 (7 5/8 × 4 3/4 英寸) Mount: 28.7 × 23.1 厘米 (11 5/16 × 9 1/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	作为一名考古学家冒险家，克劳德·约瑟夫·DésiréCharnay因其对前哥伦布时期墨西哥遗迹的摄影探索而获得认可，他于1863年在马达加斯加作为一名法国科学探险队的日记作者和摄影师度过了三个月。由于政治动荡和该岛新政府采取的排外立场，这项任务失败了，唯一的结果是查内的照片和他在1864年为《世界报》（Le Tour du Monde）杂志撰写的关于他逗留期间的记述，并以他的照片为基础进行了木刻夏尔奈用马达加斯加人的肖像被认为是一个种族类型的目录，而不是个人的画廊。通过将他的全身塑像放在画面中间，并使其正对相机，查内模仿了人类学家超然、非个人的姿态。然而，他对女王大臣拉哈拉（Raharla）的智慧和沉着很敏感。他曾两次拍摄了拉哈拉的照片，将他精心制作的西式服装的纹理与他不起眼的环境的模糊背景形成鲜明的对比。事实上，在他的文章中，恰尔内对这位受过英国教育的大臣以及他穿着欧洲服装的轻松程度表示了一定的赞赏，这篇文章对反法统治阶级持批评态度。
介绍（英）	An archaeologist-adventurer who had gained recognition for his photographic exploration of pre-Columbian Mexican ruins, Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay spent three months in Madagascar in 1863 as a diarist and photographer for a French scientific expedition. Because of both political upheaval and the xenophobic stand taken by the new government of the island, the mission was an abortive one, its only result being Charnay's photographs and the account he wrote of his stay for the periodical "Le Tour du Monde" in 1864, illustrated with wood engravings based on his photographs. The portraits Charnay made of the Madagascans were conceived as a catalogue of ethnic types rather than as a gallery of individuals. By placing his figures full-length in the middle of the frame and having them face his camera squarely, Charnay emulated the detached, impersonal stance of an anthropologist. He was, however, sensitive to the intelligence and poise of Raharla, minister to the queen, whom he photographed on two occasions, contrasting in crisp detail the textures of his elaborate Western clothes against the blurred background of his unprepossessing surroundings. Indeed, in his article, which was otherwise critical of the anti-French ruling class, Charnay wrote with a certain admiration about the British-educated minister and the ease with which he wore his European attire.