An extraordinary publishing event: 180 hand-colored photographs of the Holy Land, taken by the Matson Photo Agency at the turn of the last century. Ms. Speelman’s grandfather had commissioned the coloring of 1200 photographs on glass plates—a project so exacting, we are told, “that some painting had to be done with a single human hair.”
This is a veritable pilgrimage to first-century Palestine, where village life comes palpably alive and the reader travels many miles among many groups of people. Each full-page photograph is accompanied by descriptive text, evoking a land far removed from our own. (See my comments on the book in the Dec. 15 issue of America.)
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This article appears in December 22 2008.
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