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Sacred light : holy places in Louisiana / A.J. Meek ; essay by Marchita B. Mauck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meek, A. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church buildings--Louisiana--Pictorial works.
- Church buildings.
- Synagogues--Louisiana--Pictorial works.
- Synagogues.
- Light in architecture--Pictorial works.
- Light in architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London. Yet the splendors of local churches in America all too often remain cloistered and unheralded. Meek's beautiful photographs correct this oversight for Louisiana, a state that features a great many beautiful and long-standing holy places. Often incor
- Contents:
- Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana; PHOTOGRAPHER'S COMMENTS; COMHOUSES OF WORSHIP: CONTEMPORARY PARABLES; Altars, Chancels, and Sanctuaries; Angels, Deities, Madonnas, and Saints; Light; NOTES ON THE WORK
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-700-2
- 1-282-94632-3
- 9786612946325
- 1-60473-742-5
- OCLC:
- 693781840
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