it to be a painting and expecting to find paint and brush strokes and bow gome. >> barry schwartz was chosen in 1978 to photograph the legendary burial cloth of jesus, part of a scientific team which had unfettered access to the shroud five days and nights. >> i was convinced it was a fake. until i got there and saw it with my own eyes. >> i photographed the shroud and it transmitted life, the blood stains are visible, water marks, burns, scorches and we took the tests normally applied to a work of art and it failed all of those tests. >> lauren: while the earliest history of the shroud is unclear, it is unlikely jesus's disciples would have discarded it but the whereabouts of the cloth cannot be verified prior to it resurfacing in france in 1349. fire nearly destroyed the cloth and the relic was badly damaged