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Sleight of Hand by Katrina Strauss
Sleight of Hand by Katrina Strauss






Sleight of Hand by Katrina Strauss

In 2013 Cosindas was the subject of a retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth.

Sleight of Hand by Katrina Strauss

Her photographs were a success, and by the end of the 1960s she had received a Guggenheim grant to continue her work in color, a Rockefeller grant, and honorary degrees form Philadelphia Moore College of Art and the Art Institute of Boston. Shortly after, Ansel Adams recommended her to the Polaroid Corporation, which sought to test a new instant-developing color film. On a trip to Greece in 1959 Cosindas realized the photographs she was using as studies for her paintings could stand on their own as finished products. Born in Boston in 1925, she studied at the Modern School of Fashion Design and attended evening drawing and painting classes at the Boston Museum School.








Sleight of Hand by Katrina Strauss