The reason that I offered that background concerning those three events is because it helps me to explain what Angel and Woman on Boardwalk, Brighton Beach was doing socially/culturally and/or politically when Arlene Gottfried created it.  These events help me provide context for what types of people Gottfried photographed. She photographed primarily people who were disenfranchised in some way, shape, or form like LGBTQ+ people or immigrants escaping religious persecution. Her art reflects the people who she was around the most, providing snapshots of their everyday lives. These two people aren’t doing anything particularly noteworthy; one is just sitting on the bench while the other has their arms crossed across their chest. One could surmise that these two are disenfranchised in some form, perhaps they are immigrants from the Soviet Union who are finally able to freely express themselves or a pair of friends that are queer. There is also the fact that this photo was taken in an era when a lot of change was occurring. The photograph might be one of the last ones taken in that area with those surroundings. These people might just be passing through, or they might be going through an individual change. This helps us understand that part of Gottfried’s work helps document the people and landscape as they were rather than what they became. In my choosing of this specific background information, I wanted to demonstrate how this was just Gottfried’s life and she photographed what she knew. She knew people and their complexities and took a snapshot of that. She didn’t exaggerate anything in her work, just showed it how it was.