(b Boston, MA, 1925). American photographer. She studied painting at the Boston Museum School and worked as a designer from 1944 to 1960. Her Boston studio was in the same building as the Carl Siembab Gallery; she gradually became part of the circle of photographers that made up his stable of artists. She attended photography workshops with Ansel Adams in 1961 and Minor White in 1963 and 1964. In 1962 she was one of about a dozen photographers who were invited by Polaroid to test Polacolor film. Since that time she worked exclusively in colour, manipulating various components of the process to produce the warm tones she preferred. Cosindas created sensuous portraits of figures and objects (e.g. Conger Metcalf Still Life, 1976; see N. Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, New York, 1984, no. 764) using a view camera, natural light and colour filters, working in the same way whether the images were personal or commissioned. Her colour is muted, harmonious and atmospheric and infuses her images with romance and nostalgia.