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Bill Armstrong’s new monograph All a Blur presents 25 years of work from his luminous Infinity series. The book brings together twenty-one distinct portfolios that intertwine photography, painting, and collage, tracing Armstrong’s ongoing exploration of perception and transformation. Spanning themes from figuration to abstraction, each re-photographed image has been manipulated and reworked until the original subject dissolves into something entirely new. These radiant images evoke a liminal space between waking and sleep, just out of reach, mysterious yet deeply familiar.

Throughout his work, Armstrong weaves together themes from history, philosophy, and spirituality. Series such as Darshan and Mandala serve as meditations in their own right, embodying a contemplative practice where color and emotion take precedence, inviting viewers into a state of reflection and stillness.

All a Blur is both a visual and philosophical journey through Armstrong’s decades-long investigation into the boundaries of seeing. The work resonates with the legacies of Color Field painting, while remaining rooted in the photographic tradition. Through his deliberate distortion of form, Armstrong reminds us that beauty lies not in clarity or representation, but in the act of seeing itself.

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Over the last 25 years, Bill Armstrong has pioneered the unique approach of blurring appropriated images—a medium at the intersection of photography, painting and collage. All a Blur presents some 300 pulsating color images that offer alternate visions of history, religion and philosophy. Armstrong’s photographs range from mysterious falling figures sourced from the Renaissance to vibrating color spheres akin to Buddhist mandalas. He transforms these into hypnotic visual objects in a volume that is both aesthetically rewarding and a potential pathway to heightened awareness.

—Lyle Rexer

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Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer based in New York. His work is represented by Clamp in New York, Dolby Chadwick in San Francisco, Hackelbury Fine Art in London and Alessia Paladini Gallery in Milan. His Infinity series has been exhibited in over 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions over the past 25 years.

Mr. Armstrong’s Sistine Gestures, Last Judgment is a permanent installation in the Vatican Museums in Rome. His work is in many museum collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. His photographs have been published in more than 16 books on photography, including the cover of Lyle Rexer’s Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.  Mr. Armstrong is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography. He was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts from 2003-2022.

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