AMY ARBUS

 Amy Arbus has been photographing professionally for over twenty five years. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Forbes and The New York Times Magazine. Her advertising clients include American Express, Nickelodeon, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Line Cinema, Christiano Fissore, and the California Children and Families Commission. From 1980 through 1991 her monthly page, "On the Street," appeared in the style section of the Village Voice. Her first book, No Place Like Home, portraits of people who live in unusual homes, was published by Doubleday & Company in 1986. Her second book, The Inconvenience of Being Born, a photo essay on the extreme emotional nature of infants, was published by Fotofolio in 1999 and received an Award of Excellence from Communication Arts.

She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, the Maine Photographic and Toscana Photographic Workshops, Palm Beach Photographic Centre and The Fine Arts Work Center. Her most recent exhibitions were at the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. She has had ten one-woman exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT – “On the Street”

 The downtown art scene in the 1980's in New York was fiercely creative. People were fearless about how they were perceived and blessed with enormous talent, and they dressed in a wild and wacky way to show it. In the eleven years that my monthly style page "On the Street" appeared in the Village Voice, people watched the collumn, which read: "There are eight million fashions in the naked city and Amy Arbus is going to photograph all of them...a few at a time." People were waiting to be discovered and immortalized and included in this chic roster of strange and wonderful people, many of whom have gone on to become legends in our own time: