On September 5, 2012,  Arlene Gottfried presented her work at Professional Women Photographers, highlighting her most recent book, Bacalaitos & Fireworks, a collection of photographs from the 1970′s to the present of New York Puerto Rican culture.

Gottfried’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Life Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and New York Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Noorderlicht Acts of Faith, International Fototage, FNAC Galleries, the Space Gallery, and Leica, and is included in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Chase Manhattan Bank, the New York Public Library, Haverford College, Lehigh University, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Her numerous awards include the Berenice Abbott International Competition of Women’s Documentary Photography.

Gottfried also has a great interest in music and is known as the “singing photographer.

It was a great evening in PWP’s new home at the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Our next lecture/meeting will feature Raissa Venables on Wednesday, October 3, 6:30 pm. Check back to our website for details!

Catherine Kirkpatrick
Archive Director