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What could be a rare portrait of Joseph Smith has surfaced. One well-known collector is calling it a huge find and believes it to be authentic. The picture was hanging on the wall of a log cabin ...
(Courtesy of Daniel Larsen and Curtis G. Weber) Comparison of the Joseph Smith oil portrait once owned by Emma Smith Bidamon (left) and the unreversed Larsen daguerreotype (right), with the ...
Social media is all abuzz about a newly discovered daguerreotype that reportedly is the only known photo of Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith. But is it really him? Believers, historians and ...
But when the LDS Church released official documents last October relating to Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy, Peterson was angry she hadn't heard of the other 33 wives before. That's when she ...
Joseph Smith is a complicated figure, and I like those complications myself. To many people those complications contradict an idealized portrait of what a prophet ought to be.
His latest book, the graphic-novel biography “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” will be published at the end of July. It is a nuanced and complicated portrait of Mormonism’s founder.
“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.