Amy Arbus’s series, After Images, is an homage to classic paintings by Picasso, Modigliani, and Cezanne among others. It is perhaps her most visually arresting photographic series to date. Arbus’s chiaroscuro lighting and lush colors produce emotionally dark trompe l’oeil portraits. The photographs are a discussion of what occurs in the lens between the real, the represented, and how memory influences perception. Arbus has extended photography's range by making a series of pictures about how we see as much as what it is that we are viewing. ICP curator Brian Wallis writes, “her astonishing pitch-perfect pictures say as much about the sweetly treasured past of painting as they do about the unpredictably hybrid future of photography.