Arlene Gottfried was drawn to everyday folks who sparkled with the flair of performers. And through her eyes, New York took on the excitement of a circus. In her heyday, during the 1970s and 1980s, she prowled the city with her camera, finding colorful characters who responded with a knowing urban gaze. Typically, they were Black, Puerto Rican, Jewish, gay. In the neighborhoods where she lived and hung out — the Lower East Side, East Harlem, Crown Heights, Coney Island and Greenwich Village — these groups mixed freely, brewing up a heady cocktail that intoxicated her, as can be seen in “Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried,” a small, tantalizing exhibition at the New York Historicaljpwinner gaming, to commemorate its recent acquisition of nearly 300 of Gottfried’s photographs.

She arrived at the tail end of the comet of New York Street photography, a tradition blazed by many artists who have enjoyed greater recognition: Helen Levitt, Louis Faurer, Weegee, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz and Tod Papageorge. For about a decade, until she died in 2017 at age 66 of breast cancer, she lived in Westbeth,superace88 the subsidized artist residence in the West Village, which was also Arbus’s final home.

A native of Brooklyn, Gottfried earned a precarious freelance living. She possessed two essential skills: spotting intriguing people and winning their trust. Sometimes, also like Arbus, she maintained long-term relationships with her subjects, most significantly with a magnetic dancer and nightclub entertainer called Midnight, whose sad descent into schizophrenia she intimately recorded over 20 years.

Image“Midnight in Bed,” 1984, a portrait of a club dancer whose descent into schizophrenia Gottfried chronicled.Credit...Arlene Gottfried; via the Estate of Arlene Gottfried and The New York HistoricalImageGottfried’s “Rick James With Two Women in Furs,” 1981, features the funk star in full regalia coming face to face with two women in fur.Credit...Arlene Gottfried; via the Estate of Arlene Gottfried and The New York Historical

She loved to depict the clothes that defined identities, especially if she found a fashion clash. When two soignée ladies in furs came face to face with Rick James, the funk-punk singer famous for his outrageous haberdashery, Gottfried captured the startled look of alarm on one woman’s face.

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Probably her most famous photo, an only-in-New-York moment, depicts a heavily garbed Hasidic Jew who has somehow wandered onto a nudist beach at Jacob Riis Park, in Queens, only to be accosted by a stark-naked posing bodybuilder. Cheekily hilarious, it is included in a video but is not one of the 33 prints on the wall in “Picture Stories.”

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