Bruce Silverstein Gallery 535 West 24th Street NY 10011 New York États-Unis
ncouraged by Ansel Adams to pursue color photography, Marie Cosindas developed an unique style and perspective that could only have emerged through the use of color film. Her masterful still lifes and studio portraits draw attention to the artist's interest and background in painting and textile design, and reveal her marked attention to visual detail.
Cosindas was one of the first photographers to experiment with Polacolor film, and her work served to futher develop and advance this technology. Working with 4 x 5, 8 x 10, 20 x 24 and even 40 x 80 inch Polacolor film, Cosindas varied exposure and development conditions to achieve the desired tonality and saturation for her images.
Cosindas had a one-woman exhibition of her color work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1966 curated by John Szarkowski, who credited the artist's portraits in his introduction to William Eggleston's Guide as one of the few "conspicuous successes" in color photography before 1976. Cosindas had a solo exhibition of her color work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1966, and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967.
