![]() | Jackie Hass from Pennsylvania, received this photograph among the films she had sent to develop and print of the peregrination to Holy Land she had accomplished in October 1982 with her husband; it was taken with a kodak 110 instamatic camera. They didn’t remember watching that image, so she sent photocopies to the museums they had visited asking for the whereabouts of the picture. All of them answered negatively. Afterwards, checking the whole bunch of negatives of that trip, they found the image inserted within the pictures of the Holy Grave. The copy shown here was supplied by Richard Faenza, from Malta. The picture is extraordinary in several ways or senses: • The pupils are very expanded and the colors saturated, according to the dark contour of the Sepulcher. • His look seems to go further the observer, this effect ceases if it is seen very close. • The aureole is the light that radiated the Holy Shroud imprinting the Body of the Lord, it’s one of a very impressive extension and intensity. • The robe hangs over His right shoulder, when it was used on the left shoulder in order to let free the right side for movements, as shown in Greek and Roman sculptures and paintings, thus, to achieve the right photocomposition the mirror effect took place, not as an arbitrary act, but as to invert sides. |