Sacred portraits: Photographer makes images for project on Joseph Smith Papers
Welden C. Andersen says his career photographing Hollywood stars for movie posters and musicians for album covers pales in comparison to the portraiture project he is undertaking now.
Andersen now takes the most important historical documents in the archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and makes "portraits" of them for the volumes of the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
Original manuscripts of revelations now in the Doctrine and Covenants, Joseph Smith's pocket diary and other journals, church ledgers, the printers manuscript for the Book of Mormon are all part of Andersen's work. "I'm kind of an eyewitness to history, in a way," he said of the time he spends with these historical treasures.
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the best photographer in the world bar none.
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michaelm | Oct. 21, 2009 at 9:28 p.m.
LDS Church photo illustrator Welden C. Andersen works on images for the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
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