Discovering ‘Jack London, Photographer’

Byline: Ambrosia Brody SANTA BARBARA — After 10 years of research and written drafts, Sue Hodson’s work on a book about Jack London was turned into an exhibition at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum — and it will open July 18 at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The display tells the story of London, an author, journalist, photographer and boater who built a 40-foot ketch, Snark, and sailed to the South Pacific on a voyage that he hoped would take him around the world. Hodson is the curator of literary manuscripts at the Huntington Library and co-author of the new book “Jack London, Photographer.” The Log: Tell us about the book. Sue Hodson: “The book, “Jack London, Photographer,” is a compilation of about 200 of London’s photographs, accompanied by text, captions (usually London’s) and related quotations from his writings. The photographs in the book document the poor in the East End of the city of London in 1902, the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the South Pacific and South Seas in 1907-1908, the journey around Cape Horn in 1912 and the Mexican Revolution in 1914.” Why Jack London? “Jack London was a renaissance man — adventurer, sailor, argonaut, writer,...