Girls In The Windows
''Girls in the Windows'' is a 1960 photograph by Ormond Gigli (died 2019). It depicts 41 colorfully dressed women standing in the windows of a brownstone building on East 58th Street (Manhattan), 58th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and two other women on the sidewalk near a Rolls-Royce car. It has been estimated to be the most commercially valuable photograph and one of the most collected, on account of the great number of signed copies that have been sold at auction. Creation history Ormond Gigli, a freelance photographer aged 35 in 1960, created the image on his own initiative. He wanted to preserve the memory of the distinctive brownstone houses across from his home studio that were slated for demolition. Just days before this was to happen, Gigli arranged for 40 models from an agency. They were paid $1 each () for the entire shoot, and told to bring their own dresses and arrange their own hair and make-up. To these, he added two more women: his wife, Sue Ellen ...
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Girls In The Windows (photograph)
''Girls in the Windows'' is a 1960 photograph by Ormond Gigli (died 2019). It depicts 41 colorfully dressed women standing in the windows of a brownstone building on East 58th Street (Manhattan), 58th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and two other women on the sidewalk near a Rolls-Royce car. It has been estimated to be the most commercially valuable photograph and one of the most collected, on account of the great number of signed copies that have been sold at auction. Creation history Ormond Gigli, a freelance photographer aged 35 in 1960, created the image on his own initiative. He wanted to preserve the memory of the distinctive brownstone houses across from his home studio that were slated for demolition. Just days before this was to happen, Gigli arranged for 40 models from an agency. They were paid $1 each () for the entire shoot, and told to bring their own dresses and arrange their own hair and make-up. To these, he added two more women: his wife, Sue Ellen ...
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