| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 100 pages) : chiefly color illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Photographer's comments -- Houses of worship : contemporary parables / Marchita B. Mauck -- Altars, chancels, and sanctuaries -- Angels, deities, madonnas, and saints -- Light. |
| Summary |
Renowned photographer A.J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London. Yet the splendors of local churches in America all too often remain cloistered and unheralded. Meek's beautiful photographs correct this oversight for Louisiana, a state that features a great many beautiful and long-standing holy places. Often incor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Church buildings -- Louisiana -- Pictorial works.
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Church buildings. |
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Louisiana. |
| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works.
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| Subject |
Synagogues -- Louisiana -- Pictorial works.
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Light in architecture -- Pictorial works.
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Synagogues. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious. |
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Light in architecture. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists Books. |
| Genre/Form |
illustrated books.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Author |
Mauck, Marchita B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meek, A.J. Sacred light. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010 9781604737417 (DLC) 2010004445 (OCoLC)528648868 |
| ISBN |
9781604737424 (electronic book) |
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1604737425 (electronic book) |
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1282946323 |
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9781282946323 |
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9786612946325 |
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6612946326 |
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9781604737417 |
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1604737417 |
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