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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an unanticipated landmark, for London's groundbreaking work as a photojournalist has remained hidden until now. . . . London was a prescient, timely genius; his work helped define the photojournalistic form, a new idea, now seen as the window into contemporary life. The book's visual bounty seems endless." —
Library Journal (starred review)
"Jack London is best known as a writer of red-blooded adventure tales. But he was also a journalist, traveler, social activist - and prolific photographer . . . The breadth of this book shows how far London would go for a good story." —
Los Angeles Times"This fascinating introduction will surprise many and spur further examination of this significant anthropological and historical visual archive." — Clarice Stasz author of
Jack London’s Women"Jack London, Photographer demonstrates the truth of London’s claim to be a ‘professional photographer’ and provides readers with a fresh perspective, that of visual artistry, through which to view London’s writings." — Donna M. Campbell author of
Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885–1915"Everyone knows that Jack London’s genius lay in the prose that flowed from his hand. But who could have imagined that his eye would be as powerful? London’s photographs are a remarkable discovery and his humanistic vision an important contribution to photography." — Ken Light photographer and director of the Center for Photography, University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
"Jack London’s prose classics have overshadowed his camera work, but his photographs of London’s poor, the Russo-Japanese War, the San Francisco Earthquake, and ethnographic shots made during his voyages are all first class, too; and this masterful text-and-plates volume provides overdue recognition of them." —
ForeWord"London himself was always a story – and he comes across as a living presence among his photography. . . .This wonderful book, packed with London’s notes on the images he had taken so selectively, strongly communicates his unique humanity and his respect for people striving to live among battering biological and social forces." — Ron Slate author of
The Incentive of the Maggot"In
Jack London, Photographer, Reesman, Hodson, and Adam offer a rich and engaging text, which not only introduces London’s photographs―many for the first time―but, more importantly, contextualizes the photographs in terms of London’s larger body of work." —
Studies in American Naturalism
