John Reed (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
John Reed
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19363
Call Number: LC-B2- 3521-4
Comments and faves
Leonardo Amaro Rodrigues , spidercamp, Cida Garcia, kluehirschSnowpine, and 24 other people added this photo to their favorites.
pennylrichardsca (3 weeks ago | reply)
His wikipedia entry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_%28journalist %29
Kateri_ (3 weeks ago | reply)
jerodamor@yahoo.com.mx (3 weeks ago | reply)
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional(must say Constitutonalist) Army (under Venustiano Carranza who was its "First or Principal Chief" as he was known) when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City. Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Jack a national reputation as a war correspondent. Reed deeply sympathized with the plight of the peons and vehemently
opposed American intervention, which came shortly after he left. Jack adored Villa, while Carranza left him cold. Jack's Mexican reports were later republished in book form as Insurgent Mexico, which appeared in 1914.
In
www.nevadaobserver.com/Mexican%20Revolution%2 0-%20People/...
Back to back with the driver, wearing his mounted police Stetson
and
www.nevadaobserver.com/Mexican%20Revolution%2 0-%20People/...
you can see Pancho Villa and "Juanito" Reed (as Pancho rebaptized him).
mystuart (3 weeks ago | reply)
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jerodamor@yahoo.com.mx (3 weeks ago | reply)
Glad you liked them.
Your comment got me to your wonderful photostream.
Congratulations from Torreón, Coahuila, México
Dr. Roberto Duarte
Plastic Surgeon
<robert joseph> (2 weeks ago | reply)
photography is so amazing...
have to re-watch Reds with W Beatty and D Keaton
one of these days
artolog (2 weeks ago | reply)
John Reed and Boardman Robinson went in 1915 to Eastern Europe and Russia, where they were arrested. They were gathering material for a book that Reed was to write and Robinson illustrate. That book, The War In Eastern Europe, was published the following year.
GregHausM.D. (5 days ago | reply)
John Reed was one of the driving forces behind the forming of the American Communist Party, whose numbers grew during and after the Russian Revolution. He also protested for the syndicalist Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
He wrote for a left-wing magazine called "The Masses" and, with his journalist wife, Louise Bryant, witnessed first-hand both phases of the Revolution. John Reed and Louise Bryant witnessed first-hand the October Revolution, in which the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) headed by Vladimir Lenin toppled the Kerensky government in what they believed to be the first blow struck in a worldwide socialist revolution. Reed produced the incredible chronicle about this, Ten Days that Shook the World.
Upon returning the the U.S. at the behest of the Comintern, to consolidate Communists in America, his notes and journals were seized by the government and he and Bryant were subjected to routine harassment, searches of their home and surveillance. Reed felt that there was a need for him to represent his new splinter group of the Socialist Party of America, the American Communist Party to the new Bolshevik government and left the U.S. secretly.
Bryant and Reed were also forced to testify before the U.S. Senate about their "Communist sympathies" and even their religious beliefs. Upon hearing that the Finns had held Reed in jail after his attempt to return home (Russia was under blockade), Bryant left under cover and made it to Russia to join her husband. While on a reluctant trip to Baku in the near East, to promote the new Bolshevik government as a "Holy War", Reed heard that Bryant had arrived in Moscow and he rushed back to join her.
Reed was determined to return home, but fell ill on September 25. At first thought to have influenza, he was hospitalized five days later and was found to have spotted typhus. Bryant spent all her time with him, but there were no medicines to be obtained because of the Allied blockade. His mind started to wander, and then he lost the use of the right side of his body and could no longer speak. His wife was holding his hand when he died in Moscow on October 17, 1920, aged 32. After a hero's funeral, his body was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
GregHausM.D. (2 days ago | reply)
To inspire anyone who doesn't "get" Reed's passion, Here's a link to the Internationale, the song of the workers of the world:
youtu.be/kDwZAtE6yWY (German)
The "original" or most popular, with Lenin in May Day parades:
youtu.be/GvXBNnpHFDI
Or even better, the Russian version:
"Интернационал" "Internatsional" (The Internationale)
artolog (2 days ago | reply)
Mabel Dodge, one of Reed's lovers, described him in a way that makes this portrait come to life:
"His olive green eyes glowed softly, his high forehead was like a baby's with light brown curls rolling away from it and two spots of shining light on his temples, making him lovable. His chin was the best... the real poet's jawbone... eyebrows always lifted... generally breathless!"
GregHausM.D. (24 hours ago | reply)
Yes, he and Mabel were quite the item for awhile! I love her description, though most men wouldn't be too keen to be described as having "baby" traits! :D I wonder what a "poet's jawbone" is...?