RELIGION & PHOTOGRAPHY Jesus: An Illustrated Biography by the Editors of LIFE ISBN: 9781603201742 Price: $32.95 CDN Publisher: Time Home Entertainment Inc. Format: Hardcover LIFE’s photographer Denis Waugh travels to the Holy Land and walks in Jesus’s footsteps. The current discord in the Middle East is addressed, including up-to-date photography from the Arab Spring, and a dramatic photo-essay of the standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.  The history of Christianity in Rome, and the rise of the Vatican, is recounted. The photography of Gianni Giansanti, which so illuminated previous life Books including the New York Times bestselling illustrated biography of Pope John Paul II, takes readers behind doors that are ordinarily closed. The narrative in this book is written by LIFE managing Editor Robert Sullivan and author of the book on John Paul, who had been twice honoured with the Wilbur Award the year’s best magazine story on a religious topic. He has edited a previous and much praised book on Jesus-Who Do You Say That I Am?-as well as the LIFE books Holy Lands and Places of the Bible. (via Time Home Entertainment Inc.)
Apr 4, 2012

RELIGION & PHOTOGRAPHY

Jesus: An Illustrated Biography by the Editors of LIFE

  • ISBN: 9781603201742
  • Price: $32.95 CDN
  • Publisher: Time Home Entertainment Inc.
  • Format: Hardcover

LIFE’s photographer Denis Waugh travels to the Holy Land and walks in Jesus’s footsteps. The current discord in the Middle East is addressed, including up-to-date photography from the Arab Spring, and a dramatic photo-essay of the standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.  The history of Christianity in Rome, and the rise of the Vatican, is recounted. The photography of Gianni Giansanti, which so illuminated previous life Books including the New York Times bestselling illustrated biography of Pope John Paul II, takes readers behind doors that are ordinarily closed. The narrative in this book is written by LIFE managing Editor Robert Sullivan and author of the book on John Paul, who had been twice honoured with the Wilbur Award the year’s best magazine story on a religious topic. He has edited a previous and much praised book on Jesus-Who Do You Say That I Am?-as well as the LIFE books Holy Lands and Places of the Bible. (via Time Home Entertainment Inc.)