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Amy Arbus
Looking at Fingers - Baby Portrait, Child, Black and White

1994

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£1,511.75
€1,737.27
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DKK 12,968.08
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Looking at Fingers by Amy Arbus is a black and white photograph of a baby laying on a black background, looking at his right hand. Gelatin Silver Print 20 x 16 in. Ed. 2/75 Signed, titled, stamped and editioned in pen on verso Framing included. Frame size: 30.75 x 24.75 x 1.5 in. Amy Arbus has published five books of photographs including the award-winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. Hilton Als of The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals such as The Village Voice, French Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. Her advertising clients include Chiat/Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, and Marina Rinaldi. She has had thirty-eight one-person exhibitions around the world and is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont. Amy Arbus has taught portraiture and storytelling with images at the International Center for Photography for twenty-five years. Her photographs are in the collections of The Morgan Library, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, The National Theater in Norway, the Richard Avedon Foundation and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • Creator:
    Amy Arbus (1954, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1994
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Denton, TX
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 143011stDibs: LU21516644512

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