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View From the Top
> On the Cover
Untitled (511) 2003, C-Print, 23 ¼
x 19 ½; limited edition of 10
NYC photographer Bill Armstrong focuses on what Andre
Malraux called “the night side of man” in his ongoing Infinity
series. By setting his camera’s focusing ring on infinity, Armstrong
accomplishes a sleight-of-hand "photo-collage made seamless".
"I choose simple concrete objects, skulls and primitive masks for
their powerful, symbolic associations of fear and death…and subtly
shift their meaning by transforming them through a process of blurring
and coloring," he says. "It is my hope that this transformation
from object to abstraction will strike an unexpected balance between terror
and beauty." Armstrong’s work has been featured in solo and
group shows throughout the country and, most recently, in the Smithsonian
Institution’s touring exhibit, Here Is New York.
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