Ormond Gigli: Girls in the Windows

Girls in the Windows: And Other Stories is the first book to survey the work of Ormond Gigli and looks behind the faзade of that extraordinary photograph to understand its genesis and to celebrate its beauty and pathos as well as to open the window onto the rest of Gigli’s brilliant career. The book focuses primarily on Gigli’s celebrity and fashion photographs and on his work in the theater, film, and dance worlds, but it also offers examples of his travel photography and straight photojournalism. Gigli was a master of his medium and was always able to get his shot, managing his shoots-and subjects-like a film director. His portraits are intimate and revealing, while also often inventive and at times even playful. He consistently achieved a compelling complicity with his subjects, among whom are included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Anna Moffo, Anita Ekberg, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Diana Vreeland, Marlene Dietrich, Leslie Caron, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Richard Burton, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and many more.