| HR-50230-05 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Jeanne C. Reesman | The Photography of American Writer Jack London | 6/1/2005 - 8/31/2006 | $40,000.00 | Jeanne | C. | Reesman | | | | University of Texas, San Antonio | San Antonio | TX | 78249-1644 | USA | 2004 | Art History and Criticism | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
This book is to be a selection of approximately 120 photographs by Jack London (1876-1916), with an introduction, captions, and quotations. A celebrated adventurer, London is still one of the most widely read American writers in the world. However, his astonishing photo-journalistic oeuvre of 12,000 images has never been adequately studied: the ragged homeless of Great Britain (1902); Korean refugees from the Russo-Japanese War (1904), which London covered for Hearst; morning-after photos of the San Francisco Earthquake (1906); the disappearing peoples of the South Seas (1908-1909); the crew of one of the last four-masted sailing vessels, the Dirigo, on a perilous rounding of Cape Horn (1912); the Mexican Revolution (1914). |