Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass: The Great Mormon Temple and Its Photographers

Nelson B. Wadsworth

ISBN 10: 1560850248 / ISBN 13: 9781560850243

Published by Signature Books, 1992

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1560850248I4N01

Synopsis:

Book by Wadsworth, Nelson B.

Reviews: Issued to commemorate the centennial of the building's dedication, this pictorial history of the Mormon Church's Salt Lake Temple features the work of a dozen pioneer photographers who recorded its construction over a 40-year period. While the photographs provide a compelling journey through a black-and-white past, Wadsworth provides color in his anecdotal and richly variegated text. Wadsworth (journalism, Utah State Univ.) has assembled an astonishing collection of pristine, epiphanous images from the past 140 years and has resurrected the image-makers themselves as flesh-and-blood. The author's coup de grace is a chapter on "The Max Florence Affair," detailing a clandestine photographic mission inside the temple in 1911. Recommended for regional collections and those strong in American architecture, photography, and religion.
- Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass: The Great ...
Publisher: Signature Books
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket