Early California Models

The photographer who posed Mary Magdalene Rosamond and her sister, Eutrophia, as Madonna and Child, is unknown. I assume he is the same photographer that posed Mary and Royal’s beautiful daughters. Mary’s appearance on a postcard in clothing she may have designed, constitutes early Californian Fashion Photography. This is remarkable, being my first love, Marilyn, was a model at thirteen, and posed for the famous fashion photographer, Steve Silverstein, on Malibu Beach. Marilyn was a friends of Steven’s family.

When Rena Christiansen walked into my life, she had just come from Nebraska with her boyfriend who may have been seeking to exploit Rena Christina’s extraordinary beauty. Rena’s three sisters were fashion models. After being separated from her lover, and all alone in the city of Lost Angels, she finds me at three in the morning walking on Venice Pier. A year later I am doing a painting of her in the Pre-Raphaelite tradition. My late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton would see photographs of this work, and take up art to become world famous for rendering beautiful women. Rosamond used models from magazines as her subjects, and later posed for her work.

What is truly extraordinary, is the Madonna look these women have. They could pass as sisters. I wanted to marry Marilyn and Rena, which have made them Christine’s sisters-in-law. When you add the Rose name and images, you behold the Ideal Women of Western Civilization that have been reborn in the notion there exists a Priory de Sion, a Grail Bloodline, and the Queens of Avalon kin to Mary Magdalene who allegedly came to France in a boat without oars.

Steven Silvertstein captured the beautiful images of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the First Lady of France, and put her on the cover of Elle. These woman came together by fate to form a Constellation. Mary and Eutrophia Wieneke come from a family that owned four castles on the Hephoon Heil in Germany. Carla was born unto an ancient Jewish family of Italy, and married a man whose Jewish family is even more ancient.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2011