06 June 2017
Marie Alexia Cosindas was born on Sept. 22, 1923, in Boston, the eighth of 10 children of Greek immigrants. Her father, Alexander, who spelled the family name Kosintas, was a carpenter. Her mother, the former Stavroula Kostandakakis, was a homemaker. Ms. Cosindas is survived by a sister, Esther Teich.
Marie grew up in the city’s South End and, after graduating from the High School of Practical Arts in Roxbury, enrolled in the Modern School of Fashion Design in Boston, where she studied dressmaking. At night, she took courses in painting, drawing and graphic design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
She held a variety of jobs after leaving school. She designed textiles and worked as a color coordinator for a firm that made museum reproductions in stone. At one point she designed children’s slippers with animal faces on them.
..She describes how, shortly after the show, one of Andy Warhol’s friends approached her, asking if she would like to photograph the artist. She arrived at Warhol’s Factory to find it impossible to shoot as there wasn’t a “scrap of daylight”. She eventually persuaded Warhol to let her open a fire door – after removing a mountain of detritus herself – to “allow the forbidden daylight into the room”....
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