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26756
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English
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Praying for Grace : Charles Ellis Johnson's Synesthetic Skin
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Sensational Religion : Sensory Cultures in Material Practice
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New Haven
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Yale University Press
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261-274
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Shortly before he died, Charles Ellis Johnson turned his camera on himself. It was not the first time that Johnson had experimented with self-portraiture. A professional photographer and stereographer, Johnson made the occasional self-portrait over the years. In general, however, Johnson focused his lens―or, in the case of his stereographs, his lenses―on the world around him. In turn-of-the-century Utah, this world was largely religious. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Johnson had married into the prophet Brigham Young's family in 1878 and became one of the Mormon church's favorite photographers during the 1890s. The Temple, the Tabernacle, portraits of enormous polygamous families―Johnson shot all of these turn-of-the-century LDS attractions and more. [From the text]