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Honoring Arlene Gottfried
adriana teresa letorney
Aug 8, 2017
Photographer and singer Arlene Gottfried passed away today in her home.
Born in Brooklyn, Arlene graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The Independent in London. Gottfried has exhibited at Paris Photo, the Leica Gallery in New York and Tokyo, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and at Les Douches La Galerie in Paris. Her photographs can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Arlene is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Berenice Abbott International Competition of Women's Documentary Photography. Gottfried's most recent book, Mommie, (published by powerHouse Books), was highlighted as one of TIME Magazine's Best Photobooks of 2016. She is also the author of Bacalaitos & Fireworks (powerHouse Books, 2011), Sometimes Overwhelming (powerHouse Books, 2008), Midnight (powerHouse Books, 2003) and The Eternal Light (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999). A lecturer and a singer, Gottfried lives and works in New York City.
Learn more about her work, here.
On behalf of Visura, we honor and celebrate Arlene's life, work, voice and legacy.
With love,
Adriana Teresa
Founder, Visura
