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Nuns, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Photo by Ormond Gigli, 1955
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Photographer Ormond Gigli's iconic photo "Girls in the Windows" is often cited by experts as being the highest-grossing photo of all time.

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“At some point in 1960, Gigli realized that a clutch of brownstones across the street were about to disappear. Manhattan was just entering its maximum-occupancy phase, obliterating tenements and constructing high-rise apartment buildings. The idea for ‘Girls’ came to him close to the day of destruction” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/business/gigli-photograph-girls-in-the-windows.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #photography #ormondgigli #fashion #1960s #midcentury #nyc

“Girls in the Windows” wasn’t made by an art world giant, but people keep buying it. And buying it. And buying it.

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