David Armstrong: All Day Every Day
Publisher: Zürich (Zurich): Scalo Verlag, 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 390824756X
Condition: New / New
Item #: 101896
$85.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Scarlet cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by David Armstrong. Conversation with the artist by Martin Jaeggi. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Wyndham Boulter, Zurich. 144 pp., with 99 four-color plates (5 two-page spreads; 31 full-bleed plates), finely printed by Steidl, Göttingen, from separations made in the Steidl digital darkroom. 16-3/4 x 11-3/8 inches.
Condition
New in New dust jacket.
Description
From the publisher: "Beauty never was a dirty word to David Armstrong. Untroubled by a puritan fear of sensuality and the follies of any kind of zeitgeist, he has pursued his twin vision of urban romance and bucolic serenity. The book presents his landscapes, interiors, and citiscapes, wistful and evocative images that discreetly suggest stories of love and loss, and the solitary pleasures of a flâneur adrift on urban streets and rural roads.
'It's a large part of what I am, and the work is, of course, an expression of that, my identity. You might say, it is the reverence I have for beauty. More importantly, the belief I have in the capability of a work of art to resonate, that it can reveal more, if you look at it with more contemplation, rather than the reverse. And this is possible exactly because there is content beneath the surface and aside from the subject matter. And that content is emotion.' (David Armstrong)
A street corner, the facade of a skyscraper, blossoming trees, a chair in a room on a late afternoon: These are the elusive quotidian promises of happiness that Armstrong elegantly captures, generously inviting the viewers to interweave their desires and reveries with his own intricately languid images. Underlying Armstrong's radical aestheticism, we sense the utopian fervor of a revolt against utilitarianism, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and the stifling fear of the senses and the body that still pervades our culture."