03206nam 2200565 450 991015428470332120210106113355.00-226-41017-X10.7208/9780226410173(CKB)4340000000022395(MiAaPQ)EBC4532276(DE-B1597)550142(DE-B1597)9780226410173(OCoLC)965543760(EXLCZ)99434000000002239520161214h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCharles Ellis Johnson and the erotic Mormon image /Mary CampbellChicago, [Illinois] ;London, [England] :The University of Chicago Press,2016.©20161 online resource (234 pages) illustrations0-226-37369-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Royal Saint -- 2 Civil Saints -- 3 Johnson’s New Century Girls -- 4 Mormon Harems -- 5 Lady Saints -- 6 Stereoscopic Saints -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexOn September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the church’s favorite photographers, Johnson (1857–1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism’s most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his “spicy pictures of girls.” Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation’s mainstream after the scandal of polygamy. Engaging, interdisciplinary, and deeply researched, Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image demonstrates the profound role pictures played in the creation of both the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the modern American nation.Mormons in artPolygamyReligious aspectsMormonsAmerican Visual Culture.Erotica.Latter-day Saints.Law.Mormon.Photography.Polygamy.Stereoviews.Mormons in art.PolygamyReligious aspectsMormons.770.92Campbell Mary1974-962079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154284703321Charles Ellis Johnson and the erotic Mormon image2181305UNINA