Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus has had 25 solo exhibitions worldwide and published five books including the award winning On The Street 1980-1990. Hilton Als in The New Yorker described The Fourth Wall as her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in and on the covers of periodicals such as The Village Voice, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg News, French Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, People, New York Magazine, and Aperture. Advertising clients include Chiat/Day, Cone and Belding, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, and Marina Rinaldi. Arbus has been teaching portraiture at the International Center for Photography for 20 years and at Anderson Ranch and NORDphotography. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New York Public Library; The National Theater, Oslo, Norway; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas; The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York.

“Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with only what you expected, it was a failure. He believed one needed to surprise himself in order to create something unique.”

~Amy Arbus

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