Peter Josyph
Recent articles include "Now Let's Talk About The Sunset Limited" in the spring 2012 Cormac McCarthy Journal; "A Walk with Wesley Morgan Through Suttree's Knoxville" in the winter 2011 Appalachian Heritage, which also features Josyph's photographs.,[1] and Oath of Office: A Conversation with Richard Selzer, in the fall 2009 Lapham's Quarterly.
[2] Josyph is also the author of an illustrated monograph, From Yale to Canton: The Transcultural Challenge of Lam Qua and Peter Parker (Smithtown Township Arts Council, 1992).
Josyph's ongoing series of works on paper, Cormac McCarthy’s House, has exhibited at the Kulturens Hus in Luleå, Sweden; at the CAPITAL Centre in Warwick, England; at the Centennial Museum in El Paso, Texas; and at the Longwall Gallery of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center in Berea, Kentucky.
His series The Lost Blood Meridian Notebook exhibited in Australia at the historic Female Orphan School of the University of Western Sydney in summer 2014.
Josyph & Larkin have also issued Lives of the Saints as correspondence art in a series of limited edition postcards including The Conversion of Mary Magdalene and St. Genet.
Josyph's art and photography have been used on posters, book covers, and CDs, including The Kennedy Suite by the Cowboy Junkies (Latent Recordings, 2013); The Moon Is Waiting by Tim Hagans (Palmetto, 2011); The Avatar Sessions by Tim Hagans (Fuzzy Music, 2010);[5] Close to So Far by the Joe LoCascio Trio (Heart Music, 2002); They Rode On: Blood Meridian and the Tragedy of the American West (Cormac McCarthy Society Press, 2013); You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's Knoxville (Cormac McCarthy Society Press, 2012); John Sepich's Notes On Blood Meridian (Ballarmine College Press, 1993; rev.
His photographs of Dallas marking the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination illustrate articles by Portuguese author Paulo Faria in two November issues of the Lisbon newspaper Publico.
In addition to the plays of Pinter, Chekhov, and Ibsen, Victory Rep performed originals by Josyph and his adaptations of classic American authors such as Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and surgeon-author Richard Selzer.
In 2001, Josyph co-directed the documentary Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses (Lost Medallion Productions, 2000), which examines the art of acting in relation to literature (the work of Cormac McCarthy), with actors Matt Damon, Bruce Dern, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Miriam Colon, Julio Mechoso; screenwriter Ted Tally; DPs Fred Murphy and Barry Markowitz; and director Billy Bob Thornton.
Josyph's feature documentary Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero (Lost Medallion Productions, 2005) is based on a year and a half of filming in Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.
[4] His film No Standing in St. Petersburg starring Elena A. Shadrina, Anna Istomina, Raymond Todd, and Kevin Larkin, is airing between 2013 and 2018 at his YouTube channel,[4] where he also reads the poetry of Whitman, Keats, Swift, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, and Shakespeare.
