In the Footsteps of Abraham: The Holy Land in Hand-Painted Photographs

by Richard Hardiman and Helen Speelman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590201078
• ISBN13: 9781590201077
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.5" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher