David Armstrong (photographer)

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David Bradley Armstrong (born May 24, 1954 in Arlington , † October 26, 2014 in Los Angeles ) was an American photographer.

biography

David Armstrong, son of Robert and Irma Armstrong, was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1954 . He attended the Satya Community School in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Here he met Nan Goldin , with whom he remained friends for a long time. In the 1970s he moved to New York, where he began his art studies, first as a painter and later as a photographer. As a regular at the legendary Mudd Club in New York , which opened in 1978, he portrayed the underground celebrities frequenting there, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , René Ricard , John Waters and Steven Meisel , and captured the club atmosphere. Towards the end of his life he roamed his neighborhood in Brooklyn and created the series "All Day Every Day", in which he blurred urban fragments of everyday life into a soft melancholy. Armstrong is stylistically assigned to the so-called photographic Boston School , which also includes artists such as Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson and Mark Morrisroe .

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In the early years of his artistic activity Armstrong photographed drag queens , "druggies" and "outsiders" who belonged to his circle of friends. In the course of his career he took numerous photographs of young men, which also brought him closer to fashion photography .

Selected exhibitions

  • 1993: A Double Life , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  • 1995: Landscapes , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  • 1997: The Silver Cord , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  • 1998: Emotions and Relations , Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg, Germany
  • 1998: Gallerie Barbara Farber / Rob Jurka Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 1998: Ugo Ferranti Rome, Italy
  • 1999: New Photographs , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  • 1999: Scalo New York, New York
  • 1999: Galerie Fricke , Berlin
  • 1999: Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston
  • 1999: Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • 2000: Joao Graça, Lisbon
  • 2000: Open Studio, Toronto
  • 2000: Photography in Boston: 1955 - 1985 , DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park , Lincoln, Massachusetts (catalog ISBN 0262122294 )
  • 2000: New Editions, Marlborough Graphics, New York
  • 2000: Faces, Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • 2001: Cityscapes and Landscapes , Galerie M + R Fricke, Düsseldorf
  • 2001: Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • 2001: CITY: Prints and Photographs from the 30's through Today , Brooke Alexander, New York
  • 2001: Places and People, LA Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
  • 2001: Building Dwelling Thinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art , Boston
  • 2001: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery , New York (catalog ISBN 1-880146-34-7 )
  • 2002: City Light , Matthew Marks Gallery , New York
  • 2002: David Armstrong: All Day Every Day , Scalo Galerie , Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2002: Visions from America. Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 , Whitney Museum of American Art , New York (catalog ISBN 978-3791327877 )
  • 2002: Recent Acquisitions , Dallas Museum of Art , Texas
  • 2003: David Armstrong: portraits and other works, early and recent , Galerie M + R Fricke, Düsseldorf
  • 2003: Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude , Robert Mann Gallery , New York
  • 2004: Your Picture on My Wall , Matthew Marks Gallery , New York
  • 2004: Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists , CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts , San Francisco
  • 2004: Indigestible Correctness II , Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York
  • 2006: Model Boy , Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
  • 2006: Some Tribes , Christophe Guye Galerie , Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2007: True Romance - Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to Today , Kunsthalle Wien (Hall 1, Hall 2 in the MQ), Vienna

credentials

  1. ↑ a b The Guardian, David Armstrong: photographer of outsiders lately embraced by fashion , Sean O'Hagan, October 27, 2014.
  2. ^ The New York Times, David Armstrong, Photographer of Subcultures, Dies at 60 , Paul Vitello, October 31, 2014.
  3. ^ Vogue, Remembering Photographer David Armstrong , Alex Frank, October 27, 2014.
  4. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  5. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  6. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  7. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  8. ^ Gallery M + R Fricke
  9. ↑ Brooke Alexander Editions
  10. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  11. ^ Gallery M + R Fricke
  12. ^ The New York Times, ART IN REVIEW; Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude , Ken Johnson, March 21, 2003.
  13. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery
  14. ^ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
  15. ^ The New York Times, ART IN REVIEW; Indigestible Correctness , Holland Cotter, April 23, 2004.
  16. ↑ Christophe Guye Gallery

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personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armstrong, David Bradley; Армстронг, Дэвид
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlington
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2014
Place of death los Angeles