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A pioneer in the use of color in fine art photography, with special facility in instant Polacolor film, Marie Cosindas worked at a time when black and white still dominated. Hugh Edwards championed her work, exhibiting it at the Art Institute in 1967 and writing in an accompanying catalogue that “Marie Cosindas is one of that small number of great color photographers.” In this photograph, made of Julie Siegel, the daughter of photographer Arthur Siegel—stuck at home during the worst blizzard in Chicago’s history—Cosindas contrasted the serious mood of the adolescent sitter with the rich, vibrant hues of her Marimekko dress.