Amy Arbus

Photographer Amy Arbus has published five books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece. Her most recent, After Images, is an homage to modernism's most iconic avant-garde paintings.

Her advertising clients include Marina Rinaldi, Chiat/Day, Foote, Cone and Belding, American Express, Saatchi & Saatchi, SpotCo, New Line Cinema and Nickelodeon. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Aperture and The New York Times Magazine.

She has taught portraiture at Maine Media Workshops, the International Center of Photography, NORDphotography, Anderson Ranch Arts Center and The Fine Arts Work Center.

Amy Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Galley in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has had thirty-six solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Public Collections

The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; The Madonna Archive, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Morgan Library, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Theatre, Oslo, Norway; The Newbury Hotel, Boston, MA; The New York Public Library, New York; Richard Avedon Foundation, New York; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

Book and Magazine Covers

Chronogram
Continental
Finding Your Roots/PBS
The New York Times
The New York Times Magazine
Spalding Gray: Monster in a Box
Thirteen Program Guide
Provincetown Arts                                                                                                                     Ptownie                                                                                                                                             
Time Out New York                                                                                                     
100 New York Photographers
Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present
Weltbild
The 76th Art Director’s Annual
Insurance Review

Magazines

American Photographer; Amica; Aperture; Applause; Architectural Digest; Avenue; Boston Globe; British G.Q.; Brown Alumni Magazine; Business Week; Camera Arts; Cape Week; Chicago Tribune; Communication Arts; Conde Nast Traveler; Dazed & Confused; Details; Elle Magazine; Entertainment Weekly; ESPN Magazine; ESPN–Chinese Edition; Esquire Gentleman; Fitness; Flaunt Magazine; Forbes; Fortune; French Photo; French Vogue; German Vogue; Glamour; Goteborgs-Posten Mandag; GQ; Graphis; Harper’s; Health Magazine; House & Garden; In Fashion; In Style; Insurance Review; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; Life; The London Sunday Times; Los Angeles Times; L’Uomo Vogue; Mademoiselle; Marie Claire; Menninger Perspective; MGM Grand; Money Magazine; Ms.; Nest; New Jersey Bride; New Jersey Monthly; The New York Daily News; New York Magazine; New York Post; The New York Times; New York Woman; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker; Newsweek; Out Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Outside Magazine; Parenting; Parents; People; Philip Morris; Photo District News; Photo Metro; Photo Magazine; Photograph; Photography in New York International; Premiere; Provincetown Arts; The Provincetown Banner; Rolling Stone; Self; Seventeen; Sports Illustrated; Thirteen Program Guide; Time Magazine; U.S. Kids; Us; Vanity Fair; Vice Media; The Village Voice; Vogue Hommes; Vue; The Washington Post Magazine; Woman’s Day; Yediot Acharonot (Israel)