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"Communion."
Arlene Gottfried; thumbnail, Kevin C. Downs, 2011
Arlene Gottfried
Died on August 8, 2017 at age 66
Ms. Gottfried’s arresting images of ordinary people in New York’s humbler neighborhoods earned her belated recognition as one of the finest street photographers of her generation.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.