[1923 – 2017] American photographer. She was best known for her evocative still lifes and color portraits
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The world in black and white did not totally satisfy me, and color seemed the way to add more feeling and mood to what I was already doing.
In an introductory note to the book “Marie Cosindas: Color Photographs” (1978).
When you use Polaroid something happens between the photographer and the sitter. The sitter works with you. It's more like painting because he can see what the photographer is doing. He can always change his expression, for a totally different revelation of the person.
Ten Personal Styles: continued.
I want to evoke the mystery of color itself. I photograph late in the day, the time Rembrandt favored for painting, so that the subtlest hues surface. They are as complex as any person, perhaps more so. It’s that lyricism, that mystery of color itself — that’s my signature.
She told The Christian Science Monitor in 1979.
