Sing for your snapper: a life-affirming view of New York – in pictures

Kissing on the highway, Queens, New York, 1980

‘This image always reminds me of one by Robert Frank. Gottfried’s work, like Frank’s, is characteristic of the American interpretation of street photography that, while being focused on people, gives a sense of its vastness and chaos. She didn’t intend to draw a portrait of NYC, but her images are nonetheless documents of a vanished city, before the speculation bubble hit’