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| Author | : Mary Campbell |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022641017X |
On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the church’s favorite photographers, Johnson (1857–1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism’s most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his “spicy pictures of girls.” Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation’s mainstream after the scandal of polygamy. Engaging, interdisciplinary, and deeply researched, Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image demonstrates the profound role pictures played in the creation of both the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the modern American nation.
| Author | : Mary Campbell |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022637369X |
One of the church's favorite photographers, Johnson (1857-1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism's most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his "spicy pictures of girls." Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation's mainstream after the scandal of polygamy. --Publisher description.
| Author | : Mary Katherine Campbell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 728 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Polygamy |
| ISBN | : |
On September 24, 1890, the then president, prophet, seer, and revelator of the Mormon Church, Wilford Woodruff, made an announcement. "I have arived [sic], " he declared, "at a point in the History of my life as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints whare [sic] I am under the necessity of acting for the Temporal salvation of the Church." Finally succumbing to almost four decades of the larger nation's anti-polygamy assault, Woodruff sought to save his religion by relinquishing plural marriage. In so doing, however, he profoundly altered the very nature of Mormonism itself. Because in renouncing the practice of polygamy, the LDS church did not simply disavow an unorthodox family structure. To the contrary, it abandoned perhaps the central doctrine of its founding theology -- a theology rooted in an intoxicating vision of the male body and that body's sexualized capacity to do nothing less than make heaven on earth. This dissertation examines both this vision and its loss through the work of the little-known Mormon artist Charles Ellis Johnson (1857-1926). Church photographer, Holy Land traveler, and, perhaps surprisingly, erotic stereographer, Johnson made pictures that both restage Mormonism's original, polygamous dreams and reveal the extent to which the country shattered these dreams when they broke the LDS to monogamy. More than this, Johnson's images simultaneously disclose how the nation's brutal anti-polygamy war rooted itself in not simply terror and revulsion but also a delicious myth of the manly Saint. Focusing on Johnson's Holy Land work and his erotic stereographs, I examine the way in which Mormon polygamy spoke to such collective fantasies of manhood, power, and, ultimately, the creative impulse itself; I examine, in other words, the way in which plural marriage never existed as an isolated religious event but rather belonged to an historical, cultural, and social vista that encompassed phenomena as diverse as minstrelsy, the New Woman, dude ranches, and even Emerson.
| Author | : Martha A. Sandweiss |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300103151 |
Resurrecting scores of rare images of the 19th century American West, "Print the Legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photos and to envision their expanding nation. 138 illustrations.
| Author | : Gregg Mitman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2016-12-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 022612925X |
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists’ renderings and the spoken and written word. To inhabitants of the twenty-first century, deeply immersed in visual culture, such a history seems insubstantial, imprecise, and even, perhaps, unscientific. Documenting the World is about the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Drawing on scholars from the fields of art history, visual anthropology, and science and technology studies, the chapters in this book explore how this documentation—from the initial recording of images, to their acquisition and storage, to their circulation—has altered our lives, our ways of knowing, our social and economic relationships, and even our surroundings. Far beyond mere illustration, photography and film have become an integral, transformative part of the world they seek to show us.
| Author | : Amanda K. Beardsley |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 665 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0197632505 |
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.
| Author | : Eileen Hallet Stone |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2023-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 146714911X |
Uncovering Sin, Scandal and Sensuality In the late 1840s, the new frontier west of the Missouri River opened its floodgates to opportunity and adventure. In a new land, where men were lonely and women scarce, prostitutes poured in to ply their trade wherever they could--under trees, in wagons or random shanties. Within decades, prostitution expanded into cities and towns. Red light districts, brothels and cribs sprouted like wildflowers. Ogden's notorious madam Belle London enticed Salt Lake Councilmen to hire her to oversee their one hundred fifty room crib stockade. Park City's Mother Urban successfully defended her sixteen row houses as "necessities" for thousands of miners. The ballyhooed brothels of Helper stimulated "hunting trips" for Salt Lake men willing to travel for sex. Award-winning author Eileen Hallet Stone combed newspapers, archives and court cases to examine the lives, equity and infamy of Utah prostitution.
| Author | : David Walker |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2019-08-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1469653214 |
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream. Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.
| Author | : Brian C. Hales |
| Publisher | : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781589587236 |
In the last several years a wealth of information has been published on Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy. For some who were already well aware of this aspect of early Mormon history, the availability of new research and discovered documents has been a wellspring of further insight and knowledge into this topic. For others who are learning of Joseph's marriages to other women for the first time, these books and online publications can be both an information overload and a challenge to one's faith. In this short volume, Brian C. Hales (author of the 3-volume Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology) and Laura H. Hales wade through the murky waters of history to help bring some clarity to this episode of Mormonism's past. As Joseph Smith's participation in plural marriage involved more than just the Prophet and his first wife Emma, this volume also includes short biographical sketches of the 35 other women who were sealed to Joseph but whose stories of faith, struggle, and courage have been largely forgotten and ignored over time. While we may never fully understand the details and reasons surrounding this practice, Brian and Laura Hales provide readers with an accessible, forthright, and faithful look into this challenging topic so that we can at least come toward a better understanding. Praise for Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding "Few matters of LDS history have proven to be as faith-sensitive as Joseph Smith's plural marriages. While a number of efforts have been made in recent years to shed light on this challenging phenomenon, nothing has brought greater clarity, enlightenment, and, particularly for believing Saints, spiritual reassurance, than has the work of researcher Brian Hales. He and his wife Laura have now rendered a monumental service to Mormons and interested observers by bringing clarity and better understanding to this topic. I for one am grateful for the context, perspective, and both straightforward and faithful answers provided for so many of the questions surrounding Nauvoo polygamy. It is a book that will be read and discussed for years to come." - Robert L. Millet, Professor Emeritus of Religious Education, Brigham Young University
| Author | : Andrew Scott Cooper |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2016-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0805098984 |
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
