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<p>A pioneer in the use of color in fine art photography, with special facility in instant Polacolor film, Marie Cosindas worked at a time when black and white still dominated. Hugh Edwards championed her work, exhibiting it at the Art Institute in 1967 and writing in an accompanying catalogue that “Marie Cosindas is one of that small number of great color photographers.” In this photograph, made of Julie Siegel, the daughter of photographer Arthur Siegel—stuck at home during the worst blizzard in Chicago’s history—Cosindas contrasted the serious mood of the adolescent sitter with the rich, vibrant hues of her Marimekko dress.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.4 × 8.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.); Paper/mount: 13.9 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Marie Cosindas
Artist
Printmaking
Marie Cosindas was an American photographer known for her pioneering use of Polaroid color film in fine art practice during the 1960s and 1970s. Working at a time when color photography was largely dismissed by the art establishment, she employed the instant film process to create intimate still lifes, portraits, and domestic interiors suffused with saturated jewel tones and a luminous, painterly quality. Her restraint in composition and her treatment of ordinary domestic objects elevated the snapshot aesthetic to museum-quality work. Cosindas helped legitimize color photography and the Polaroid medium as serious artistic tools during the postwar period.
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- Marie Cosindas
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.4 × 8.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.); Paper/mount: 13.9 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 5/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1967-060617
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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