Amy Arbus
Amy Arbus (* 1954 ) is an American photographer. She lives and works in New York City .
Life
Arbus is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus , who committed suicide in 1971. Her sister is the writer and journalist Doon Arbus .
Due to the early death of her mother and the job-related absence of her father, Arbus was left on his own from an early age. In the 1970s she found a job with the young fashion photographer Jean Pagliuso . In the early 1980s she had her own fashion trend column “On the Street” in the New York weekly newspaper The Village Voice . Among other things, she photographed the still unknown singer Madonna on St. Mark's Square in Venice in 1983 . She later published pictures from this period in her book On The Street 1980–1990 . She enrolled in Boston at Berklee College of Music for aStudied flute and saxophone , but stated that she would not belong to the more talented musicians and turned back to photography. In 1992 she attended the master class with Richard Avedon , who was a friend of her family and who significantly influenced her work. Arbus' work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines including The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Rolling Stone , Architectural Digest, and The New York Times Magazine . Her pictures are among the collections of the New York Public Library , the Museum of Modern Art and the Nationaltheatret in Norway.
Arbus had more than 25 own exhibitions worldwide. She teaches portrait photography at the International Center of Photography , for NORDphotography, the Anderson Ranch and the Fine Arts Work Center .
bibliography
- A. Arbus: No Place Like Home , Doubleday , 1986 ISBN 978-0385198561
- A. Arbus: The Inconvenience of Being Born , Fotofolio, 1999 ISBN 978-1881270355
- A. Arbus: On the Street 1980–1990 , Welcome Books, 2006 ISBN 978-1599620152
- A. Arbus: The Fourth Wall , Welcome Books, 2008 ISBN 978-1599620442
- A. Arbus: After Images , Schiffer Publishing, 2013 ISBN 978-0764344558
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amy Arbus's One-Woman Show With a View , The New York Times, July 21, 2013.
- ^ Narrative Medicine Rounds: Amy Arbus, Photographer , Columbia University School of Continuing Education, Feb. 4, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arbus, Amy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |