Bill Armstrong is a New York based fine art photographer who is known for his blurred color photographs. He grew up in Concord, Massachusetts.

Life and career

Bill Armstrong is a fine photographer who has been shooting in color for over 15 years. His Mandala series was featured in a two-person exhibition at the

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in 2008, and he had a mid career retrospective at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach in 2010. Armstrong’s work is in many museum collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum,

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, and the

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. He has presented work in numerous museum exhibitions including: the

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; Hayward Gallery, London; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne; Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan; and FOAM, Amsterdam. One of Armstrong’s images was chosen for the cover of Lyle Rexer’s Aperture book, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. His work appears in Face: The New Photographic Portrait by William Ewing and Exploring Color Photography, by Robert Hirsch, among other books. He has also been published in numerous periodicals including

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, Harper’s, House and Garden and Eyemazing. He is on the faculty at the

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and the

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References

External links

www.billarmstrongphotography.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Bill Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Photographers from New York (state) American fine art photographers