Amy Arbus (born 1954) is a New York City based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus, and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus.
Arbus teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Anderson Ranch and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Arbus is the author of several photo books. During the 1980s, she had a monthly page that appeared in the Village Voice's style section. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, and The New York Times Magazine.
Arbus' most recent book, Amy Arbus: The Fourth Wall was published in April 2008. The New Yorker calls it her "masterpiece"[1] On the Street was published in September 2006. Her other books include The Inconvenience of Being Born (1999) and No Place Like Home (1986).
Her photographs are a part of the collection of the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In a talk at UCLA's Hammer Museum, Arbus described her reluctance to become a photographer and her years studying at the Berklee College of Music and hanging out with The Cars (then still unknown), before studying at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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