Lot 373: WALTER CHAPPELL

WALTER CHAPPELL 1925-2000 'PHOTOGRAPH 2-55' mounted, signed and dated in ink on the mount, initialed and titled in pencil and with a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed title and credit and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1959 7 5/8 by 9 1/2 in. (19.4 by 24.1 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer in August 1959 for the Library Collection

According to Walter Chappell authority David Scheinbaum, vintage prints by Chappell are scarce. In 1961, when the photographer was living and working in Rochester, New York, a fire destroyed virtually all of his early prints and early negatives. After this loss, Chappell considered his early prints unique.