| | TITLE | David Armstrong: 615 Jefferson Avenue | IMPRINT | Damiani | PRICE US | $45.00 CDN $45.00 | ISBN | 9788862081788 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 9 x 11 in., 176 pgs, 120 color. | CATALOG | FALL 2011 p. 91 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 7/31/2011 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| "Armstrong's photographs are portraits, and the intense level of attention discloses his methodology: slow, cautious. A model's form evokes by way of deep, seemingly uncontrolled introspection. The languid rhythm is stressed by the warmth of a light that is absorbed into the body and then released, as if by a bright steam. Eroticism is transferred interpersonally via the atmosphere, by way of sheer compositional control. Beauty is presented as an epiphany, an instantaneous and meaningful signpost in a fragile, unstable combination of elements…the act of looking at his images is always closer to a reading than it is a viewing: a void filmed with phantoms. His models are interchangeable and at the same time distinctly unique. They contribute to a tradition where the sense of the image is more dense, even if that tradition is never directly references. Allusion is offered, in the place of analogy, and it is the means by which tradition might or might not travel. This vague past is part of a personal universe, a private encyclopedia where every picture is addendum. Beauty is stored and never taken for granted."Manuel Segade, excerpted from Et in Arcadia Ego in 615 Jefferson Avenue. | NEW PHOTOGRAPHY Text by Otto M. Urban.
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| | | David Armstrong: 615 Jefferson AvenueEdited by Nick Vogelson, Anton Aparin. Introduction by Boyd Holbrook. Text by Manuel Segade. Conversation with Ryan McGinley. It was for his sharply focused portraits of young men--friends and lovers--that David Armstrong (born 1954) first gained critical attention, alongside his “Boston School” friends Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe and others. In the 1990s he changed tack somewhat, producing soft-focus cityscapes in which street lights, street corners and urban signage were elaborated into a soft blur. With 615 Jefferson Avenue, Armstrong returns to the subject of his youth. The photographer's first monograph in ten years, it gathers portraits of young boys taken in his turn-of-the-century row house in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, or at his farm in upstate New York, all of which were made in the course of taking fashion photographs. Low-key in their eroticism, these images always aim for a tangible, evident contact with their subjects: “It always has been this act of seduction, where you are trying to get the subjects to reveal themselves before the camera,” Armstrong put it in a recent New York Timesinterview. The rooms in which Armstrong shoots are painted in rich, dense, mint greens and browns, matching the period of the house itself, so that an atmosphere of enveloping interior catches the outlines of these boys, posed upon the many couches that fill Armstrong's home. Filled with the excitement of rediscovering familiar terrain anew, this volume collects 120 of Armstrong's color and black-and-white portraits.
"I think when you work on something, you thing, 'OK, what just happened, and what's going to happen?' But with my work I think, 'Nothing. This is it. This is what happened. There's nothing before and there's not something after. This is a portrait, it's not about a narrative.'"David Armstrong, excerpted from his interview with Ryan McGinley in 615 Jefferson Avenue. Featured image, Jarrod, 2011, is also reproduced from 615 Jefferson Avenue. | Cory Reynolds | Date: 8/30/2011 This fall, noted Boston School photographer David Armstrong will sign copies of his new book of portraits of beautiful young men taken at his homes in the Catskills and Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, at the New York and Los Angeles branches of Bookmarc, Marc Jacobs' highly selective and super-smart bookstore.
The New York event takes place at 400 Bleeker Street, Thursday September 8th at 6PM, as a part of New York's Fashion Week. In Los Angeles, the event is at 8407 Melrose Place, Friday October 7th at 7PM. A selection of Armstrong's photographs will be hung in the stores for the week following each event. Below is a selection of images from the book, accompanied by curator and art historian Manuel Segade's introductory essay, Et In Arcadia Ego. continue to blog
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