Girls in the Windows, New York City, 1960 Photo Print 12x12"

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Creating a girls in the window has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Ormond Gigli are consistently popular. Vividly colored chromogenic print on semi-gloss double weight paper with margins flush-mounted on aluminum. Intent on capturing the beauty of the buildings before it was gone for good, the artist set to work on crafting the perfect image to memorialize the neighborhood he had come to love so well.

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.

I had a brownstone [studio] that was right across from it on East 58 th Street, and I look out the window one day and I see that they are tearing down the brownstones opposite me – they were old and no one was in them. More than 160 have been offered over the years at Phillips, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and other houses, according to Artnet. As a private individual, you have the possibility to resell on Artsper your works acquired on Artsper.

It kind of reminds me of that scene in Bye Bye Birdie where are the girls are on the phone spreading the town gossip about Hugo and Kim -- know what I mean? Stained glass windows are made of glass that has been colored by mixing molten glass with metallic oxides.

He was working at this moment for the Rapho photo agency, when a LIFE editor enlisted him to do a series of celebrity portraits in replacement of Robert CAPA. The image depicts 43 women poised in the windows of a New York City brownstone, exuding an ephemeral vibrancy that captures the essence of 1960s fashion and art photography.