Lewis Josselyn

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Josselyn c. 1920s
Born(1883-09-13)September 13, 1883
San Diego, California, US
DiedMarch 14, 1964(1964-03-14) (aged 80)
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, US
Resting placeGolden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California
EducationBoston School of Fine Arts
Known forPhotography
StyleMonochrome photography
Spouse(s)
Augustine Eugenie Richard
(m. 1920; died 1988)

Lewis Josselyn, (September 13, 1883 – March 14, 1964) was an American photographer. He is best known as the official photographer for the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. His photographs can be found in permanent collections and publications.

Early life

Josselyn was born on September 13, 1883, in San Diego, California, to Massachusetts native parents, Charles Lewis Josselyn (1850–1917) and Alice R. Lamb.[1] He had two younger brothers, Albert and Windsor. He studied art and photography at the Boston School of Fine Arts (now School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts).[2][3]

Career

Early works and photography

While in San Diego, Josselyn started his photography work. In 1914, he moved to the art colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, where he was regarded as "one of the commercial photographers".[2][4] He became the official photographer at Forest Theater in Carmel.[5] He took his first theater photographs in 1915 for a theatrical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream,[6] and other plays including Treasure Island (1916), Inchling (1922),[7] Caesar and Cleopatra (1922),[8] and Hamlet (1926).[9] His works jas appeared and stored in California State Library, and Harrison Memorial Library.

During 1915, Josselyn was assistant stage manager for Helen Parke's play, The Columbine,[10] stage manager for a production of Weir of Hermiston,[11] stage manager and handled stage lighting for a production of Inchling in 1922.[12]

In May 1917, Josselyn and his brother Winsor left Carmel to enlist in the United States Army Medical Corps during the World War I. From 1917 to 1919 he served as Private first class on duty with Base Hospital in Nantes, France. He was stationed in the X-Ray department, where he photographed hospital scenes, and the American Expeditionary Forces.[2][13][14][15] Josselyn took photographs of the Spanish missions in California, including The Plaza Mission Los Angeles (1915),[16][17] Mission San Francisco Solano (1920), Mission San Antonio de Padua (1928), San Carlos Mission,[18] and the chamber where Junipero Serra is buried.[19]

Between August 9 and September 4, 1920, Josselyn and fellow photographer, Louis S. Slevin exhibited their photographs at the fourteenth annual exhibition by the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club.[20][21] In 1926, he built his house and photographic studio.[14]

Josselyn took early pictures of the Monterey Peninsula, including images of the Lone Cypress in Pebble Beach and Point Lobos. One titled The View of Point Lobos, was featured in the Carmel Pine Cone on November 28, 1973.[22] In 2009, Michael Kenneth Hemp, wrote a book chronicling the history of Cannery Row, with photographs taken by Josselyn. These images feature scenes from the Point Lobos Canning Company (1916), abalone divers and shells (1916), a storm in Monterey Bay (1919), the Hotel Del Monte fire (1924), and a street scene along Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove (1932).[23][24] He also captured the fire that destroyed the Associated Oil Company tanks on September 14, 1924.[25]

From the 1920s to the 1940s Josselyn took photographs of Jo Mora, a sculptor, artist, and writer in Pebble Beach.[26] Josselyn's images are featured in two of books, Peter Hiller's The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West, and Mary Murray's book Jo Mora Artist And Writer. In Jo Mora Artist And Writer, an early Josselyn photograph captures Mora with his sculptor The Poppy Nymph (1916), which was exhibited at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.[27] [28][26]

Josselyn captured images of the Junípero Serra cenotaph, considered by Mora, to be the pinnacle of Mora's artistic achievements.[27] He photographed the unveiling ceremony of the Statue of Junípero Serra on the inaugural day of the Carmel Woods subdivision on July 22, 1922.[29][30] In 1938, Josselyn assisted Mora in making and photographing a large Portolá expedition diorama depicting the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar de Portolá.[26][31] Josselyn's photographs of Mora's artworks were shown in a Monterey History and Art Association exhibit from November 15, 2003 to February 29, 2004.[26]

Starting in 1924, Josselyn documented the initial activities of theatrical producer Edward G. Kuster's newly established Theatre of the Golden Bough. He photographed the opening of the theatre with productions of Mother of Gregory (1924), and The Princess Who Wouldn't Say Die (1924). His photographs depicted the auditorium with a stage spanning 38 ft (12 m), as well as the Court of the Golden Bough and portraits of the summer school's teaching staff from 1924.[32][33] Josselyn photographed storefronts lining Kuster’s Court of the Golden Bough. Among these were the Carmel Weavers Studio (1922), Sade's (1924), and the Seven Arts Shop (1937).[34][35] He documented the Theatre of the Golden Bough's destruction by fire on May 19, 1935.[29]

In 1925, Josselyn took photographs of Carmel poet Robinson Jeffers in front of his Hawk Tower,[36] which are part of the Robinson Jeffers Collection at the Occidental College.[37] One of Josselyn's portraits of Jeffers from the same year has been featured in various publications and is held in the archives of the Tor House Foundation.[38]

Josselyn's photographs depict the coastal town of Big Sur, featuring the Post Ranch House, the Big Creek Bridge (1932), the Big Sur maintenance yard, the Pheiffer's Ranch Resort,[39] and the construction of the Bixby Creek Bridge (1932).[29] He photographed the Bixby Creek Bridge on November 23, 1932, during its dedication and opening to the public.[39] He produced early photo postcards promoting the Monterey Bay Area, including views of the Bixby Creek Bridge on the Big Sur coast and construction of California Highway 1.[4] Josselyn also photographed the Steel Bridge over Garrapata Creek, north of Big Sur, as well as William Brainard Post's homestead (1920) near the area.[39] His photographs of the Big Sur region include Palo Colorado Canyon, California, Torres Canyon, the United States Forest Service ranger headquarters at Big Sur, Pico Blanco from the coastline, the Little Sur River, and Slates Hot Springs.[40]

Later years

Josselyn married Augustine Jeanne Richard (1896–1988), of Nantes[41] on February 24, 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut.[42] Josselyn documented Paul Flanders Mansion, Outlands in Carmel-by-the-Sea, taken shortly after the mansion's completion in 1926. His photographs were integrated into the Historic American Buildings Survey,[43] included in the Monterey County's National Register of Historic Places listings, and featured in the National Park Service's digital assets gallery.[44]

Josselyn took photographs of the Abalone League, and both he and his wife participated in the league games.[45]

In April 1926, Josselyn embarked a two-week photographic expedition across the Mojave Desert and Death Valley in the Southwestern United States,[46] returning in May, accompanied by playwright John Northern Hilliard and others, to live among the Hopi and the Navajo peoples.[47]

Josselyn collaborated with western writer Frederick R. Bechdolt, serving as a photojournalist for stories published in The Saturday Evening Post. In November 1936, Josselyn illustrated Bechdolt's article Stampede, 1936 Model, about the modern gold rush to the hills northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada.[48] Similarly, in November 1941, Josselyn's photographs were featured in Bechdolt's article Uncle Sam Goes Prospecting, documenting their journey through a mining county.[49]Winnemu From 1932 to 1955, Josselyn worked with botanist and horticulturalist Lester Rowntree to capture images of California native plants for The Christian Science Monitor,[50] The National Horticultural Magazine, [51][52] and Sunset Magazine.[53] His photographs also appeared in botanist Gilbert Morgan Smith's A textbook of general botany.[54]

Collections

Josselyn's work is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Maritime Museum,[55] Monterey Museum of Art,[56] Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History,[57] and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum.[58]

Death and legacy

Josselyn died, from a stroke, on March 14, 1964, in his home in Carmel.[2][3]

After Josselyn's death, his sister-in-law, Florence Josselyn, exhibited his Old Monterey photographs at Casa Serrano in Monterey in 1965. Many of the photographs were taken of buildings prior to their destruction or restoration.[59] In 1973, she exhibited his 1920s and 1930s photographs at the Marjorie Evans Gallery in the Sunset Center, presenting them under the title "The Carmel of Lewis Josselyn."[60]

On November 29, 1970,[16] Josselyn's widow donated about 3,000 original glass plates and film negatives, sized at 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm), as well as original prints and his photographic equipment to photo archivist Pat Hathaway.[17][61] Following Hathaway's death in 2021, Josselyn's collection of glass plates and film negatives were gifted to the Monterey County Historical Society in Salinas, California.[62]

List of photographs

This is a partial list of Josselyn's photographs.

Photograph Title Year Dimensions Collections
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1915 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) California Digital Library
Treasure Island: Tusitala 1916 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) California State Library
Flavel steam schooner 1923 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) The San Francisco Maritime Museum's Research Center has a collection of Josselyn's photographs.[55]
Caesar and Cleopatra 1922 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) Harrison Memorial Library[8]
Carmel Mission 1919 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) Pat Hathaway Photo Collection[36]
Carmel Summer School 1924 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center has a collection of Josselyn's photographs of the Golden Bough Theatre productions.[32]
Jeffers at Tor House 1925 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) Robinson Jeffers Collection at the Occidental College Library in Los Angeles, California.[37]
Jarvis House 1920s 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) Art, Design & Architecture Museum[58]
Home of old lady Allen 1920s 5 inches (130 mm) x 7 inches (180 mm) MayoHayes O'Donnell Library[63]
Carmel Mission, Viewed Through Tranquera 1931 10 inches (250 mm) x 13 inches (330 mm) Center for Creative Photography, located on the University of Arizona, has two prints by Josselyn in there fine print collection. Both were posthumously printed by Hathaway and were gifted to CCP by Ansel and Virginia Adams.[64]

See also

  • List of American photographers
  • Black-and-white

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  63. "Home of old lady Allen". Mayo Hayes O'Donnell Library. Monterey, California. Retrieved 2024-03-03. Photographs by Josselyn are available by online, which include Colton Hall, Custom House, and Bixby Bridge.
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