PHOTOGRAPHIC
RESOURCE CENTER at boston university | 2002 members print program
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david armstrong Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, David Armstrong is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Wishing to be a painter at first, Armstrong investigated photography with his long-time friend Nan Goldin. Armstrong and Goldin, along with their college confidants Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, have been informally dubbed the “Boston School.” This circle of friends has been the subject of many exhibitions and books, including a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and a book, Emotions and Relations, published by Taschen in 1998. While in Europe in 1992, Armstrong turned from portraits and began photographing the land. The exquisite aesthetic qualities in Armstrong’s blurred mysteries have been compared to the pictorial movement of the turn of the last century. In Nurnberger Eck, Armstrong finds quiet beauty in the softened reflection of green grass. As in Alice in Wonderland, we are transported through a simple bedroom door into a new fantastical realm.
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