Lot 3615

Description

The Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer Medal, in bronze (rectangular 81x82mm), uniface, obverse, man lifting a photo plate from a camera and below a laurel spray above the name of the medal, reverse inscribed, 'H.Chargois'. In original box, this with foxing on lid lining, nearly uncirculated.

This medal was issued by a photographic journal/magazine originally published in London as Amateur Photographer. Over the years it has been published under various names including Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer from 3 August 1927 until 20 June 1945.

Herbert Chargois was a renowned photographer born at Cairns, North Queensland, the son of another famous photographer, Alphonse Chargois who specialised in recording aboriginal peoples among other things. When Alphonse died in 1937 his son Victor Herbert Chargois (his full name) was appointed a trustee of his estate.

Herbert opened the Chargois Photographic Studio in Cairns after his discharge from the AIF (served under full name of Victor Herbert Chargois, WIA 18Sep1918). After several years of exhibiting his work in the foremost salons of the world he was appointed an associate of the prestigious Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain in 1936. During WWII he was second-in-charge of 17 Battalion VDC in Cairns. He sold his studio at Cairns in 1947 and moved to Maroubra, Sydney. He died in 1986.

See following lot 3616.