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, 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, was published in April 2008. The New Yorker calls it her "masterpiece"
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 , 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.