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Nuyorican artist/gallerist Alfred González was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, where most of his early photographs are taken. He purchased his first camera, the Nikon FM in 1978, at the age of 16 and has been a photographer ever since then. He attended Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, studying urban design, architecture & photography.
Alfred opened Gallery 71 in 1994, where his photographs are exhibited.
His works are in the permanent collections of: 911 Memorial Museum, NYC, Barack Obama Presidential Library/National Archives of the United States, Museum of the City of New York, The New York Historical Society, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and El Museo del Barrio, NYC.
Private collectors: President & Mrs. Barack Obama, Ms. Agnes Gund, President Emeritus MOMA, Actor, Writer, Director Spike Lee, Abbe Raven, Former CEO and Chairperson, A + E Networks/History Channel, Gayle King, CBS Mornings, Robbin Roberts, ABC Good Morning America, Kemberly Richardson, ABC News team.
Alfred shoots exclusively in medium format black and white film nearly every day with his cameras of choice, the Mamiya 7 & Hasselblad 501cm. He can be found almost every morning in his basement anytime between 5:30am - 6:30am developing film with what he captured the day before in his travels around NYC.



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