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“It was thanks to Alfred Hitchcock that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.”

- Grace Kelly

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Sheryl Lee in TWIN PEAKS | 1x03 ‘ZEN, OR THE SKILL TO CATCH A KILLER’

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Rita Hayworth’s glittering jacket in Gilda (1946)

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Kay Francis, 1930, who was for a time a top star and the highest-paid woman in America. She is in costume for a parody of Carmen that appeared in the 1930 all-star revue Paramount on Parade.

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Hedy Lamarr, 1938, a publicity photo for Algiers, her first American film

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I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)

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Frances Dee and Christine Jordan in I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)

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Up the down staircase, Vadim Sherbakov

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The Northern Sky

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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: they convinced me that culture was the highest of values.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Girls in the Windows, New York City, 1960 —Ormond Gigli ••• “In 1960, while a construction crew dismantled a row of brownstones right across from my own brownstone studio on East 58th Street, I was inspired to, somehow immortalize those buildings. I had the vision of 43 women in formal dress adorning the windows of the skeletal facade.

We had to work quickly to secure City permissions, arrange for models which included celebrities, the demolition supervisior’s wife (third floor, third from left), my own wife (second floor, far right), and also secure the Rolls Royce to be parked on the sidewalk. Careful planning was a necessity as the photography had to be accomplished during the workers’ lunch time!

The day before the buildings were razed, the 43 women appeared in their finest attire, went into the buildings, climbed the old stairs, and took their places in the windows. I was set up on my fire escape across the streeet, directing the scene, with bullhorn in hand. Of course I was concerned for the Models’ safety, as some were daring enough to pose out on the crumbling sills.

The photography came off as planned. What had seemed to some as too dangerous or difficult to accomplish, became my fantasy fulfilled, and my most memorable self - assigned photograph. It has been an international award winner ever since.

Most professional photographers dream of having one signature picture they are known for. “GIRLS IN THE WINDOWS ” is mine.” (at Midtown East) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnuivJQHMSa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cq0sqpd5tz1d