Girl in the Light, 1967
"It was the summer of 1960, and one morning I glanced out of the window of my studio in Manhattan and noticed that a row of brownstones opposite were being prepared for demolition. Looking at the design of the empty windows, an idea struck me: put a woman wearing colourful clothes in each of the openings." - Ormong Gigli, on shooting Girls in the Windows
At the center of his successful oeuvre stands his best-known photograph: Girls In The Windows, taken in 1960, an image which was conceived by Gigli for himself rather than on assignment, and which not only jumpstarted his career but defined his artistic vision. Groundbreaking in its unique & innovative approach, it depicts 43 women standing in the windows of a New York City brownstone. Today it is one of the genre’s most recognizable images not only of 1960s fashion photography but also ultimately triumphing as iconic in the echelons of art photography.