嘉华露《美在其中》
 

        记得南无哀说：“对于中国，摄影，首先是一个政治问题。”那么对于1930年前后的中国，这位西方摄影师是如何走遍全国？眼中的美又在哪里？他的镜头下所展现的世界又是如何走进您的内心？
       Remember that Nan Wuai said”In China, photography, is firstly a political issue”. so, how did this western photographer travelled all around the whole country in China at the time around 1930, and where the beauty in his eyes was? And how does the world presented by his camera lenses steps  into your heart? 

 

 

 

      此书为硬皮精装，照片印刷精美，封面蔡元培题字“美在其中”、上海印刷印书馆馆长邝富灼与著名学者胡适为其写序，是研究民国摄影史的重要善本。

 

This book is a hardback copy, the pictures are printed beautifully. The inscription on the cover “Beauty is in it” was written by Cai Yuanpei. Curator of Shanghai Printing Press Mr. Kuang Fuzhuo and the famous scholar Hu Shih wrote prefaces for the book.
 

作品特色

        不同于民国同时期画意摄影师的作品，嘉华露的作品大胆采用现代主义摄像风格，用长焦镜头，突显静物的细节与质感，每一帧画面都显得那样鲜活真实，每一副作品都好像能看到当时的自然风光与世态人情。
  It is an important rare book for studying the history of photography in the era of the Republic of China. Small details often have a different flavor. 
 

小细节，别有一番风味

        尤其值得一提的是，本册每张作品的对页均为当时上海最时髦的名牌广告，内容从摄影器材到家具化妆品一应俱全，从侧面体现出摄影师做展览时豪华的支持与赞助，同时令观赏者感受到展览的盛况。
 What is especially worth mentioning is that all pages of the works in this period were the most fashionable advertisements of famous brands at that time in Shanghai, contents are of all kinds from camera equipment to furniture and cosmetics, this reflects the sumptuous sponsorship and support the author had deserved for his exhibition. At the same time, that makes it possible for viewers to experience the grand occasion of the exhibition. 
 

作者掠影

 
        嘉华露，1890年生于香港，1914年毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，20世纪20年代开始其摄影创作生涯。在沪期间除行医之外，亦继续摄影创作，时有作品发表，逐渐崭露头角。1932年12月，在上海举办个展，由时任上海市市长的吴铁城主持开幕，展览期间还由时任中央研究院院长的蔡元培做“艺术与宗教”讲座，其在上海的影响力可见一斑。1940年嘉华露举家赴美国定居，1969年，嘉华露逝世于加州奥克兰市，享年79岁。
     Dr. Alfred De Carvalho, was born in 1890 in Hongkong and graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1914. From 1920s’, he began his career as a photography. During his life as a doctor in Shanghai, he continued his photographic creation and the publishing of some of his works brought him to the fore gradually. His personal photo exhibition was held in Shanghai and the opening ceremony was emceed by the mayor of Shanghai Mr. Wu tiecheng. During the exhibition, president of Academia Sinica Mr.Cai Yuanpei delivered the lecture themed “Art and Religion”. From the previous two points, it is can be clearly seen that the author has a great influence in Shanghai. He and his family settled in the United States in 1940 and died at the age of 79 in 1969 in Oakland City, California.

2014年澳大利亚国家美术馆为筹备展览“Garden of the East-Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s”收购了嘉华露的部分佳作，嘉华露风格回归到公众视线之中。