Claro Jansson
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| Claro Jansson | |
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| Born | Klas Gustav Jansson 5 April 1877 Hedemora, Sweden |
| 💀Died | 1954 (aged 76–77) Curitiba, Brazil1954 (aged 76–77) |
| 💼 Occupation | Photographer |
Claro Gustavo Jansson, born Klas Gustav Jansson, (5 April 1877 – 1954) was a Swedish-born Brazilian photographer.[1]
Biography[edit]
Early years[edit]
Jansson was born in the town of Hedemora, in the Dalarna region of central Sweden, about two hundred kilometers from Stockholm, he was raised in the Lutheran faith and lived in his native town until 1890 when the family moved to Sundsvall, further north.
He lived through difficult times, when Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe. In 1891 the family decided to move to South America, following the same path of many other Swedes of the time. But the vast majority of these moved to the United States. It is not known exactly what motivated around two thousand Swedes - perhaps five hundred families - to emigrate to Brazil. Among them were the Janssons.
First years in Brazil[edit]
Arriving in Brazil in 1891 with his father, Anders Jansson, his stepmother and five younger brothers (leaving only Anna Jansson, the eldest sister, in Sweden) Jansson went on to live in the small town of Jaguariaíva, in the state of Paraná.
From there, he moved to Lapa in the same state, sixty kilometers from Curitiba, where he helped to take care of the Baron of Campos Gerais, who was sick in his last months of life. In Lapa, he witnessed the tragic events of the Federalist Revolution, when the city was besieged by the rebels in what became known as the siege of Lapa. Forced by a captain to join a government detachment that left Lapa shortly after the siege ended, Jansson fled on horseback during the march and went back to his father's house in Jaguariaíva.
Soon after, he ventured to the region of Porto União, where he was employed as foreman of groups that cultivated yerba mate. In this same work, he went through the pine hinterlands of western Santa Catarina to Misiones, in Argentina, where he lived for a few years in Barracón, a city now called Bernardo Irigoyen.
Widower of his first wife (Brazilian Benedita Mattoso, from Porto União), and already the father of three daughters, he married in second nuptials with Swedish Eleonora Deflon, daughter of friends who had also emigrated from Sweden on the same ship. Eleonora lived in the Military Colony of Alto Uruguai, (in what is now the municipality of Tiradentes do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul). With her, Claro had six more children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
From Misiones, where he also worked transporting logs along the Uruguay River and whose destination was the ports of Buenos Aires or Montevideo, he returned to Brazil, again in the Porto União da Vitória region, where he established himself as a photographer. At that time, he accompanied and photographed the entry, in Porto União, of the troops of colonel João Gualberto, then commander of the Public Force and later Patron of the Military Police of Paraná, who, coming from Curitiba, headed towards Iraní with the first troops that would attack the jagunços raised by the monk João Maria and encamped in those parts. Among these is the last photo of colonel João Gualberto alive. At this time, he also took a photo of the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who passed by by train.
After the First World War[edit]
Some time later he was employed as official photographer of the Cia. Lumber, an American lumber company owned by the magnate Percival Farquhar, whose companies would also build the São Paulo-Rio Grande Railway. Jansson then moved to Três Barras - today part of Santa Catarina, headquarters of Serraria Lumber, from where he continued photographing the movements related to the Contestado War until the end. There are pictures of fanatical leaders like Bonifácio Papudo and Alemão, as well as military leaders like general Setembrino de Carvalho. Still in Três Barras, he photographed the passage of people from São Paulo and Santa Catarina who fought during the tenentist uprising of 1924.
In 1928, Jansson moved to Itararé in search of certain profits with the construction of the Itararé-Fartura Railway, which ended up not getting off the ground. However, he decided to settle permanently in this city, from where he also photographed the revolutionary movements of 1930 and 1932. In 1930 he photographed the front and also the passages of Flores da Cunha, Glicério Alves, Assis Brasil and Getúlio Vargas for Itararé.
In the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution, in addition to Itararé where he photographed João Batista Luzardo, he was also in Buri, where the most violent combats of the Southern Front took place, in Itapeva (then Faxina) and Capão Bonito, accompanying and photographing the events.
Last years[edit]
His brothers Carlos, Israel, João and Emílio married in Brazil and left many descendants. Axel, the second to last, returned to Sweden and joined his older sister who had stayed there. Anna had been to Brazil in 1909 with her husband, Otto Stark. However, they did not adapt and returned to Sweden; she never saw her father or her other siblings again. Axel graduated as an engineer and retired from the Stockholm mayor's office - despite the nostalgia, he also never returned to Brazil, although he never forgot Portuguese, his school language, in which he learned to write. Claro's second son, Gustavo Adolfo Jansson, retired as a photographer in Itararé, dying in January 2004. Following in his father's footsteps, he left a vast photographic collection and contributed a lot to the book with his father's biography.
Gallery[edit]
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Getúlio Vargas and his followers in Itararé, during the 1930 Revolution
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Capão Bonito, 1932
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Glicério Alves
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Tombs of government soldiers killed during the taking of Itararé during the Constitutionalist Revolution, 1932
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Brazilian Army troops in the Contestado War
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Brazilian Army troops marching, Contestado War
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References[edit]
- ↑ Filho, Donizeti Lazaro Palomo (29 June 2012). "Claro Jansson - O Fotógrafo Viajante". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Unknown parameter
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