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A Communion of Shadows - Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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A Communion of Shadows - Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in
American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance,
a ""mania."" This richly illustrated book positions vernacular
photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century
American religious life. 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;
rather, commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual
meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay
beyond. Rachel McBride Lindsey demonstrates that what people beheld
when they looked at a photograph had as much to do with what lay
outside the frame - with theological expectations, for example - as
with what the camera had recorded. Whether studio portraits tucked
into Bibles, postmortem portraits with locks of hair attached,
""spirit"" photography, stereographs of the Holy Land, or magic
lanterns used in biblical instruction, photographs were curated,
beheld, displayed, and valued as physical artifacts that functioned
both as relics and as icons of religious practice. Lindsey's
interpretation of ""vernacular"" as an analytic introduces a way to
consider anew the cultural, social, and material reach of religion.
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