The emerging image was startling to many, who know Smith only from a portrait that ... That’s not a real human face. So I think maybe we get that. There’s been this desire to really get ...

Seeing is believing, so the saying goes, and that was instantly true for some viewers of the recently discovered daguerreotype purporting to be Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. “My immediate ...

(RNS) — The polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph Smith than it does about us. (RNS) — On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith ...

On this week’s show, Mackay answers questions about the photo, the process historians used to authenticate it and why he’s convinced that it’s an image of Joseph Smith.

The Visual Image of Joseph Smith Jr." Although an 1842 oil portrait of Smith has been circulating around since the 19th century, historians said that it is not the real portrayal of the Mormonism ...

In the days and weeks after the reported discovery of the first known photograph of Joseph Smith, a debate erupted: Is this really him? Here’s why it could be; here’s why it couldn’t be.

he was stunned to see the face of a man. “In my mind, there was no question who it was,” Larsen said. He felt sure he was staring into the eyes of Joseph Smith Jr. For years, historians had ...

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

A prophecy of war, God’s first name, fierce chastisements and the blessings of polygamy — these are the contents of the more than 40 uncanonized revelations of Joseph Smith that two historians ...