Lot 34
ALBERT ALEXANDER CHESTERFIELD (1877-1959)
Lot 34 Details
ALBERT ALEXANDER CHESTERFIELD (1877-1959)
ALBUM OF CANADIAN ARCTIC AND NEWFOUNDLAND PHOTOGRAPHS
A collection of 18 vintage silverprints, circa 1901 – 04, (some mounted on card), and 12 vintage snapshots, circa 1931, depicting various Canadian Arctic and Newfoundland portraits and scenes., many with titles and dates verso.
Estimate $1,000-$2,000
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A.A. Chesterfield spent most of his working life in Montreal as a professional photographer, a field in which he achieved a national reputation. But between 1901 and 1904 he was employed as a fur trader with the Hudson’s Bay Company, and his most significant camera work comes from this period. The only white man at the company’s northernmost posts (Great Whale River and Fort George), he lived and worked with the Cree and Inuit. The photographs he took during this period are remarkable in their combination of technical skill, visual appeal, and documentary and historical significance.
A Fur Trader’s Photographs
A.A. Chesterfield in the District of Ungavam 1901-4
William C. James
McGill-Queen’s University Press
1985