A communion of shadows : religion and photography in nineteenth-century America / Rachel McBride Lindsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindsey, Rachel McBride, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

History.

United States--Religious life and customs--19th century.

United States.

Photography--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a 'mania.' In this ... illustrated book, Rachel McBride Lindsey places vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious culture and lived religion. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the Gold Rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things--commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469633725

1469633728

9781469636481

1469636484

OCLC:

971130511