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kodak_challenge | all galleries >> Kodak Challenges >> Challenge 7: Triptych >> Exhibition Gallery: Closed > "Three Marys" #2 by David Fink
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November 14, 2004 David Fink

"Three Marys" #2 by David Fink

St. Mary -- Blessed Virgin, Mother of Jesus, subject of countless "Madonna and Child" images throughout two thousand years of Christian art.

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kodak_challenge22-Nov-2004 21:01
Great theme, super work - Quentin
kodak_challenge16-Nov-2004 23:38
Thanks. I'm afraid the Baby Jesus was having a rather undeity-like fussy afternoon. He's facing a pretty tough assignment after all. As to the wrinkled garment in the first photo (Mary of Bethany), no that wasn't intentional. But, given her humility, we had discussed a robe color for her that was as unpretentious as possible. DF
Guest 16-Nov-2004 19:19
The reverential treatment of these portraits, with judicious softening of Mary's profile, gaussian glow, and her MonaLisa-like expressions, contrasts noticeably with the objects she is pictured with--in this case the little boy, who appears to be all ID! (I wonder if Mary's scarf was deliberately left wrinkled in the first photo?) A very interesting series.