- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (12 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899235329
- ISBN-13: 978-1899235322
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 30.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,408,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Arlene Gottfried first came across the Eternal Light Community Singers at a Gospel Fest in an abandoned gas station in New York's Lower East Side. Eventually she herself became a choir member and joined in every aspect of the life of this dedicated community. These photographs are a vivid portrait of that life: intense and vibrant, a truly unique record.
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captures a beauty that everyone can see,
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This review is from: The Eternal Light (Hardcover)
her work moves people. her work shows what needs to be shown. she expresses things through her work that influence photographers around the world. i know that she definitely has had a huge impact on my life and on my ideas in photography of my own. thank you arlene. best wishes. miss you.
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The Genius of Arlene Gottfried,
By Karen Branan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Eternal Light (Hardcover)
The first photo features Monet, already gorgeous at 2, clutching a doll, enormous black eyes gazing innocently into Gottfried's camera. In the second photo, Monet, dressed in white lace, appears to be simply sleeping, in her coffin, the doll lying beside her. These stunning and unforgettable photographs were taken two days apart. They were the first of hundreds to be taken by the talented Arlene Gottfried of The Eternal Light Community Singers, a Harlem gospel choir led by the late Selwyn Rawls, loving lightning-bolt of a man, missionary, and musician. "The Eternal Light" chronicles the choir in all their ecstatic human-ness. Gottfried, who'd soon join the choir, captures -- as no other photographer could -- the faith, ecstasy, and throbbing intensity of life of this amazing family of people. It is only at the end of the book that I realized I had read it in silence, for so vivid are the faces, so alive the images, so filled with spirit its every moment that I could swear I heard their celestial song. My collections of books of photography and African American culture have been immeasurably enriched by this fine volume and first book by an artist whose work has graced Life Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. I highly recommend it to lovers of superb photography or anyone who wants to share the rich and rollicking lives of an amazing group of human beings.
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