Arthur Elgort Studio
Arthur Elgort had a studio in his New York City apartment for twenty years. When he married wife Grethe Barrett Holby in 1983, she wanted their apartment to be a space for family and friends. He then purchased a studio on the sixth floor of a building designated for artists in SoHo without first seeing the space. Before SoHo was a highly sought-after neighborhood, no one wanted to travel that far down Manhattan. Arthur, despite skepticism, gradually renovated the SoHo studio into a space that complimented his needs as a photographer. With his definitive snapshot aesthetic and reliance on natural light, the open floor plan and elongated windows helped set the backdrop for what would later become some of his most pivotal photographs.
Shy of four decades later, Arthur continues to work in his SoHo studio and almost never travels to other studios for photoshoots. He fills the walls with photographs from across his career that form wallpaper-like collages that he is continuously inspired by. Upstairs serves as a workspace and storage for the seemingly endless sprawl of contact sheets, negatives, magazines and other documentation of his illustrious career.
There is truly no other studio like his left in New York City ... or anywhere.