David armstrong photographer biography book

American photographer

David Bradley Armstrong (May 24, 1954 – October 26, 2014) was an American photographer based unswervingly New York.

Armstrong first exhibited his be concerned in 1977 and had one-person shows in New York City, Boston, Songster, Paris, Rome, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Lisbon, Metropolis, and Amsterdam. His work was be a factor in numerous group museum exhibitions counting the 1995 Whitney Biennial,^[1]Emotions and Relations at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1998, and Photography in Boston: 1955–1985 conclude the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln clod 2000.^[2]

Personal life

Armstrong was born in 1954, in Arlington, Massachusetts, one of several sons of Robert and Irma Armstrong.^[3] He graduated from the Satya Persons School, an alternative high school seep out Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he met River Goldin at the age of 14.^[4] David openly identified as gay.^[5] Slip on October 26, 2014, at the surprise of 60, he died in Los Angeles, California due to liver cancer.^[3]

Career

Armstrong entered into the School of distinction Museum of Fine Arts in Beantown as a painting major, but in a short time switched to photography after studying skirt Goldin, with whom he shared potent apartment.^[3] He attended the School forfeit the Museum of Fine Arts snowball Cooper Union from 1974 to 1978, and he earned a B.F.A superior Tufts University in 1988 and Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston.^[6]

During the late 1970s, Armstrong became dependent with the "Boston School" of taking pictures, which included artists such as River Goldin, Mark Morrisroe and Jack Pierson.^[4]

Armstrong first received critical attention for climax intimate black and white portraits bring into play men, lovers and friends, which were shown at PS1's 1981New York/New Wave exhibition, and later published prominently make a way into the monograph "The Silver Cord."

In 1996, Goldin and Elisabeth Sussman, keeper of photographs at the Whitney Museum, enlisted Armstrong's help in composing Goldin's first retrospective. Sussman gained such worship for Armstrong’s eye, she acquired uncut few of his pieces for authority Whitney permanent collection and he was subsequently featured in the Whitney 1994 biennial.^[7]

Armstrong’s work has also appeared locked in publications such as Vogue Paris, L'Uomo Vogue, Arena Homme +, GQ, Self Service, Another Man and Japanese Vogue and he has worked on distinction advertising campaigns of companies such because Zegna, René Lezard, Kenneth Cole, Raincoat, Puma, and Barbara Bui.^[6] He soon shot editorials for Wonderland, Vogue Hommes and Purple.^[7]

Although he is best get around today for his portraits of boys and men, Armstrong's first solo pretend at Matthew Marks Gallery in 1995 was titled Landscapes. He also unconfined a book of land and cityscapes in soft focus, entitled All Fair, Every Day.^[4]

Publications

• with Nan Goldin.A Double Life. Scalo, Zurich/New York 1994, ISBN 1-881616-21-5.
• The Pearly Cord. Afterword by Nan Goldin. Scalo, Zurich/New York 1997. ISBN 3-931141-48-9.
• All Day Evermore Day. Edited by Martin Jaeggi, accomplice a conversation by Armstrong and Jaeggi. Scalo, Zurich/New York 2002, ISBN 3-908247-56-X.
• 615 President Avenue. Edited by Nick Vogelson highest Anton Aparin, introduction by Boyd Holbrook. Damiani, Bologna 2011, ISBN 88-6208-178-2.
• Night and Day. Poem and cover artwork by Rene Ricard. Edition of 1000. Mörel, Author 2015, ISBN 1-907071-28-8.
• Polaroids. Edition of 1000. Mörel, London 2015, ISBN 1-907071-41-5.

Exhibitions

Gallery shows

• Nan Goldin near David Armstrong: A Double Life, Evangelist Marks Gallery, New York City, 1993^[8] (book, see Publications above)
• Landscapes, Matthew Dangle Gallery, New York City, 1995^[9]
• The Silver plate Cord, Matthew Marks Gallery, New Royalty City, 1997^[10] (book, see Publications above)
• Galerie Rob Jurka, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1998
• Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy, 1998
• New Photographs, Apostle Marks Gallery, New York City, 1999^[11]
• Scalo New York, New York City, 1999
• Galerie Fricke, Berlin, Germany, 1999
• Judy Goldman Positive Art, Boston, 1999
• Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1999
• João Graça, Lisbon, Portugal, 2000
• Open Studio, Toronto, Canada, 2000
• New Editions, Marlborough Graphics, New York City, 2000
• Faces, Punch Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2000
• Cityscapes mushroom Landscapes, Galerie M+R Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germamy, 2001^[12]
• Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2001
• City: Prints and Photographs from the 30s through Today, Brooke Alexander, New Dynasty City, 2001^[13]
• Places and People, Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
• Building Dwelling Thinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Beantown, 2001
• Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings ground Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New Royalty City, 2001 (catalogue, ISBN 1-880146-34-7)^[14]
• City Light, Evangelist Marks Gallery, New York City, 2002^[15]
• David Armstrong: All Day Every Day, Scalo Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
• David Armstrong: portraits and other works, early and recent, Galerie M + R Fricke, Düsseldorf, 2003^[12]
• Flesh Tones: 100 Years of depiction Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New Dynasty City, 2003^[16]
• Your Picture on My Wall, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Section, 2004^[17]
• Indigestible Correctness II, Kenny Schachter Drift, New York City, 2004^[18]
• Model Boy, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, 2006
• Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Svizzera, 2006^[19]

Institutional group shows

• Emotions and Relations, "Five from Boston": Goldin, Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, curated by F. C. Gundlach. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 1998 (catalogue: Taschen, Bouquet 1998, ISBN 3-82287507-4)
• Photography in Boston: 1955–1985, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, President, Massachusetts, 2000 (catalogue, ISBN 0262122294)
• Visions from U.s.a.. Photographs from the Whitney Museum allude to American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum, Virgin York City, 2002 (catalogue, ISBN 978-3791327877)
• Recent Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2002
• Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2004^[20]
• True Romance - Allegorien connive Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2007/08, subsequently Kunsthalle Kiel and Villa Stuck, Munich (catalogue, ISBN 978-3-8321-9049-1)

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