Bill Armstrong: All a Blur: Photographs from the Infinity Series

photography monograph for Bill Armstrong / Axiomatic Editions

texts by: Lyle Rexer, Bill Armstrong, A.D. Coleman, Katherine Ware, W.M. Hunt, Brian Sholis, Collier Brown

from The Observer’s Share, by Lyle Rexer:
Blur is one of those aspects of photography that can serve as a barometer of cultural and aesthetic history, and Armstrong has been the photographer most deeply engaged with exploring its implications, and not merely perceptual ones.... In a stubbornly documentary medium, Armstrong means to invite viewers away from a purely denotative experience of the subject — a passive role — and toward a more expressive, and lively one, transforming the photograph into a space of projection....Craving photography’s certitudes, we learn from Armstrong’s photographs to give them up in favor of far greater insights that we win for ourselves. In the midst of whatever world we are in, they offer a means to achieve a deeper responsiveness to the lives we live.

336 pages
10 x 11 inches