Sheona Beaumont is a photographer and writer, and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK.

The highlight of the book is the selection of images and the grappling with the literal and the spiritual—the difficulties of representing historically real persons using contemporary models, and of conveying a “something more” beyond the surface, an element of transcendence… There’s much to savor here!

• Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: What You See Is What You GetPart 1: Between Image and Word in the Interdisciplinary LandscapeChapter 1: Interpretative Positions from Biblical HermeneuticsChapter 2: Interpretative Positions from Art History and Visual Culture CriticismChapter 3: Problems, Paradigms, and the CMYK ModelPart 2: The Theology of the Real in Photography and the BibleChapter 4: Index: Landscapes, Witnessing, and Documentary TraditionsChapter 5: Icon: Identifying with Characters and PortraitsChapter 6: Tableau: Storying the World in Scene and NarrativeChapter 7: Vision: Shooting the Spiritual and the ApocalypticConclusion: Seeing is BelievingBibliography

Sheona Beaumont is a photographer and writer, and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK.

The highlight of the book is the selection of images and the grappling with the literal and the spiritual—the difficulties of representing historically real persons using contemporary models, and of conveying a “something more” beyond the surface, an element of transcendence… There’s much to savor here!

• Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: What You See Is What You GetPart 1: Between Image and Word in the Interdisciplinary LandscapeChapter 1: Interpretative Positions from Biblical HermeneuticsChapter 2: Interpretative Positions from Art History and Visual Culture CriticismChapter 3: Problems, Paradigms, and the CMYK ModelPart 2: The Theology of the Real in Photography and the BibleChapter 4: Index: Landscapes, Witnessing, and Documentary TraditionsChapter 5: Icon: Identifying with Characters and PortraitsChapter 6: Tableau: Storying the World in Scene and NarrativeChapter 7: Vision: Shooting the Spiritual and the ApocalypticConclusion: Seeing is BelievingBibliography

Sheona Beaumont is a photographer and writer, and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK.

The highlight of the book is the selection of images and the grappling with the literal and the spiritual—the difficulties of representing historically real persons using contemporary models, and of conveying a “something more” beyond the surface, an element of transcendence… There’s much to savor here!

• Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: What You See Is What You GetPart 1: Between Image and Word in the Interdisciplinary LandscapeChapter 1: Interpretative Positions from Biblical HermeneuticsChapter 2: Interpretative Positions from Art History and Visual Culture CriticismChapter 3: Problems, Paradigms, and the CMYK ModelPart 2: The Theology of the Real in Photography and the BibleChapter 4: Index: Landscapes, Witnessing, and Documentary TraditionsChapter 5: Icon: Identifying with Characters and PortraitsChapter 6: Tableau: Storying the World in Scene and NarrativeChapter 7: Vision: Shooting the Spiritual and the ApocalypticConclusion: Seeing is BelievingBibliography