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In The Footsteps Of Abraham

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These vivid images evoke the Holy Land of centuries ago, as Moses or Jesus might have seen it. The photos were taken before the advent of color photography by the Matson Photo Agency, part of Jerusalem's American Colony, a community of Christian expatriates. In the 1920s, Ari Speelman, a devout Dutch Christian, commissioned the hand-coloring of 1200 photos on glass plates, a massive undertaking that sometimes involved painting with a single human hair. In this era before mass tourism, he traveled through Holland giving popular lantern slide lectures. His remarkable collection was bequeathed to the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam; the photos in this book were selected from that legacy.

Product Overview
ISBN 9781590201077
Categories AC, Highlight, Holy, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities, Spirituality and Religion
Author(s) Hardiman, Richard
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Weight 2.43 kg