Arlene Gottfried American, 1950-2017

Overview
Arlene Gottfried

Arlene Gottfried, born in Brooklyn, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications. 

Her first photographs are of life on the streets, picturing her friends, relatives, and neighbors of the ethnically diverse area of Brooklyn she lives in. The photographs from the 1970s and 80s document a part of New York City that no longer exists, a rough environment where she gravitates towards individuals with unique characteristics and large personalities. She goes to festivals, block parties, and all the parades. She returns to the beaches of her childhood, and also clubs and disco that had a sense of wild and free self-expression in a world before the AIDS epidemic.

A lecturer and a teacher, Gottfried lived and worked in New York City until her death in 2017.

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Arlene Gottfried

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)

2018      "L'insouciance d'une époque", ImageSingulières, Sète

2017      "Bacalaitos & Fireworks", Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

2016      "Sometimes Overwhelming" Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

             Hardhitta Gallery, Los Angeles

             "Bacalaitos & Fireworks" Daniel Cooney Fine Arts

2015      "These Days" Hardhitta Gallery, Cologne, Germany.

2014      "Sometimes Overwhelming" Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY.

2009      "Bitter Sweet" Soho Photo New York, NY.

2008      "Bitter Sweet" Alice Austen House

2006      "Midnight" BCA Gallery The Gatehouse, Bedford, England.

2005      "Midnight" Space Gallery, London

              "Midnight" Internationale Fototage, Mannheim, Germany.

2003      "The Eternal Light" Associazione Culturale Magister Ludi , Milano.

             "The Eternal Light"& Midnight, Baldwin Art Galleries, Tenn.

              "The Eternal Light" Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Mo.

2002      "The Eternal Light" Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

2001      "The Eternal Light," Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1999      "The Eternal Light," Leica Gallery, New York, NY.

1998      "The Eternal Light," Maison Valdotaine de Photographie, Aosta, Italia.

              "One Woman Show," York College, Jamaica, NY.

1997      "The Eternal Light," Musee Arthur Batut, Labrugiere, France.

1996      "The Eternal Light," Il Diaframma Galleria, Milan, Italy.

1995      "The Eternal Light," FNAC Galeries Photo, Montparnasse, Paris, France.

1994      Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Columbia.

1993      "The Eternal Light," Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida.

1991      "Bacalaitos and Fireworks," Union Square Gallery, New York, NY.

1990      Guta de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal.

             Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY.

1983      "Puerto Rico," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.

              Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY.

1980      "Portraits," Alternative Museum, New York, NY.

1977      "Coney Island," Foto Gallery, New York, NY.


GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

2016      "Paris Photo" Grand Palais, Paris, France

2015      "Westbeth Artists Open Studios Tour", New York, New York, NY.

             "New York" Les Douches La Galerie, Paris, France.

             "We Live in Brooklyn, Baby" Photoville, Brooklyn, New York, NY

2014      Slide Luck Alice Austen House, Staten Island, New York, NY.

2013      "East Village, Our Village" The Lower East Side Club Clamp Art New York, NY.

             "The Fence at Photoville" Brooklyn, NY Boston, MA

              "A Gathering Of Images" Leica Gallery

              "Brooklyn Half Marathon" United Photo Industries, Dumbo, Brooklyn

              "Street Photography 2013" Soho Photo

2012      "Central Park", Leica Gallery

2008      "Divas", Robert V. Fullerton art Museum

2007      "Acts of Faith", Noorderlicht, The Netherlands.

             "Midtown Y", New York Public Library.,

             "One on One", Minneasota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN.

             "70's Disco", powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY.

2006      "Images of Color", Bellevue Hospital Center, NYC.

             "Salon Exhibition", Bellevue Hospital Center, NYC.

             "Holiday Exhibition", Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne Germany.

2003      "Night Life New York",   Tanqueray Ten-NYFA.

2001      "Game Face," Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

2000      "Women in Documentary Photography," Springfield Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

             "Dancing Through Time," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy.

             "New York Now 2000," The Museum of the City of New York.

1999      "The Power of the Photograph," Hudson Guild, New York, NY.

1998      "A Summer Wedding," Leica Gallery, New York, NY.

             "Inside These Walls," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

1997      "Living for the City," Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.

1992      "Snapshots," FNAC Galeries Photo, Paris, France.

             "Bacalaitos and Fireworks," Centro de Estudios de Fotografos, Vigo, Spain.

1989      "Women Photographers: New York/Tokyo," Nikon House, New York,

1983      "New York at Night," Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY.

1980-82      "Inside Out Self Beyond Likeness," Newport Harbor Art Museum,

1982      "Portraiture in Light," Rheinisches Landes Museum, Bonn, Germany.

Cafeteria Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

 

AWARDS

2011      Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Summer Institute

2008      Hasselblad Masters Finalist,

2002      American Photograpy 1984

2001      The Manhattan Community Arts Fund - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,

2000      Bernice Abott International Competition of Womens Documentary Photography, Purchase Award 2000,

1999-2000      Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography, finalist

1994      Maine Photographic Workshop, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,

1984      Excellence in Photojournalism, Society of Newspaper Design

1982      Creative Artists Public Service Award Fellowship

 

EDITIONS

2015      "Mommie", powerHouse Books, New York.

2014      "Her Villages", Album, Metropolitan Section, N.Y. Times.

2011      "Bacalaitos & Fireworks ", powerHouse Books, New York.

2008      "Sometimes Overwhelming ", powerHouse Books, New York.

               "International Photo Magazine Edition 7 "

2007      "Nash Editions Photography and the Art of Digital Printing", Nash Editions.

2006      The New Yorker Magazine, New York, NY.

2000-05      Newsweek, New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan., Arabic  

2004      New York Magazine, New York, NY. 1972.

2003      Midnight, powerHouse Books, New York.

2002      The Spirit of Family, Al & Tipper Gore , Henry Holt, New York.

2000      American Photography 16, New York, NY.

             Della Republicca, Milano, Italy.

1999      The Eternal Light, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester, England .

1996-98      DoubleTake, Boston, Massachusetts.

1992-98      The Observer, London, England.

1988-97      Life Magazine, New York, NY.

1994      People, New York, NY. 1994

             "Gods Yes is Louder than My No"

             Popular Photography, New York, NY.

1993      Photo District News, New York, NY.

             L'Uomo, Italy, Milano.

1992      Fotopractica, Italy.

              Leica Fotografie International, Germany.

              Meaning of Life, Time/ Life Books,

1991      London Sunday Telegraph Magazine, London, England.

              La Fotografia, Barcelona, Spain.

              London Sunday Telegraph Magazine, London, England.

1990      Parade, New York, NY.

1987      Mothers and Daughters, Aperture

1986      The Americas Review, Arte Publico Press, Houston, Texas.

1977      The Family of Children, Ridge Press, New York, NY.

1992-93-99      The Independent Magazine, London, England.

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