With three additional models, two on the street and one on the ground floor the picture was complete. Gigli’s career took off in 1952 when a LIFE editor hired him to do a series of celebrity portraits and to cover the Paris fashion shows.

If you’re looking for a girls in the window from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 20th Century. The models went into the building slated for demolition, climbed the old stairs, and took their places in the windows. The most famous of Gigli's favorite photographs were self-assigned, such as one of the legendary fashion photographs of the 20th century, Girls in the Windows. I’m actually on the fire escape on the second floor – we had large fire escapes, almost like a balcony or something – I’m set up there with my camera and I’m directing.Provide all requested photographic evidence of the problem (including the original artwork and packaging). You can also browse by medium to find art by Ormond Gigli in silver gelatin print, c print, archival pigment print and more.

It places in context an iconic image of the postwar era at the height of its prosperity and on the verge of transformation. Before most people knew how to read, the windows helped tell the stories of the Old and New Testaments and the saints. What he doesn’t know is that the image will become one of the most collected photographs in the history of the medium. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). A Christie's specialist may contact you to discuss this lot or to notify you if the condition changes prior to the sale.

I had a great staff there [at my studio], so I’m discussing it with my studio manager – if we could get the frames out of the windows, we could shoot a girl in each window. TIME caught up with Gigli before the mid-November release of a new book looking back at his life’s work. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The final result was a symphony of color, form, and life, beautifully encapsulated within the frames of the brownstone windows. We aim to ship works that are unframed within 2 weeks, and within 6 weeks for works that are framed.

Careful planning was a necessity as the photography had to be accomplished during the workers’ lunch time! Nobody has hired Gigli, a 35-year-old freelance commercial photographer, to create “Girls in the Windows. So I had my studio manager go to talk the head demolition guy, and he said “yes, but you have to put my wife in the shot!Gigli began his journey in the 1950s, gaining recognition for his captivating photographs of theater, film, and dance.

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Yet, the pièce de résistance of Gigli's illustrious career is the iconic photograph known as Girls in the Windows, taken in 1960.