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Charles Louis Gabriel (25 June 1857 – 10 February 1927) was an Australian photographer and medical practitioner. He was born in Kempsey, a remote New South Wales settlement, to Dr. Charles Gabriel and Emma Rudder. Despite his upbringing in this remote colonial and coastal fringe, like his father and grandfather before him, Louis became a physician. At Scotland's prestigious Edinburgh University he won additional medical qualification in surgery and maternity, with distinction. On his return voyage, he probably practiced his new skills as a ship's doctor. After practicing briefly in Sydney, he left for Gundagai, an inland pastoral town half way between Sydney and Melbourne, in 1887. The new doctor dedicated himself to medical work, only taking up the hobby of photography twelve years later, around 1899. Over the following decade or so he produced over eight hundred glass plate negatives, many of the images astonishing and accomplished. Now in the National Library of Australia (NLA), they are a valued record of Australia—and Gundagai, its most iconic town. Contemporary documentaries and articles present his photographs as acutely observed documentary images. However, he has been quaintly portrayed as a typical, country medico, a gentleman and talented amateur. But his imagery and his story belie it. == Family heritage == The Gabriel family heritage is French, English, West Indian and Welsh. However, the doctor's negroid features made him something of an 'odd man out' in colonial Australia, then in the process of creating its White Australia policy. He was commonly described as 'the black doctor'. His African forebears, in four successive generations were dispersed around four continents. As a dark skinned doctor in Nineteenth and early Twentieth century Gundagai, most commentators have underplayed or ignored this aspect. Yet race and colour was always going to be important in a colonial Australia engaged in debate on nation and identity. Generations of the Gabriels, and millions of Africans, had already felt the effects of slavery and dislocation. Ironically the French revolution's cry for 'Liberty, Equality and Fraternity' meant that a few thousand talented Africans became unwitting participants in the Napoleonic wars and Napoleonic France. Over time, these outcasts of France developed strategies for coping with the racial suspicions and hostilities faced in everyday life. Accomplished black professionals like the Gabriel family, sought acceptance through their strength, work, good deeds, local familiarity and importantly, longevity of residence in a single location. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Gabriel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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