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David Armstrong - 615 Jefferson Avenue (2011)

David Armstrong - 615 Jefferson Avenue (2011)

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David Armstrong's incredible and very rare 615 Jefferson Avenue was the last book to be released prior to his death in 2014. Taken at his New York home of the same name, it's a beautiful collection of photographs of young men. When he was a student, he shared an apartment with Nan Goldin, who grew up in his hometown of Boston, and worked with Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, and others at the now-famous collective from the 'Boston School'. This has given him a unique subject matter and approach similar to this group. A lowkey eroticism mixed with an intimate and comforting approach makes a perfect collection of pictures.

It was for his sharply focused portraits of young men--friends and lovers--that David Armstrong (born 1954) first gained critical attention, alongside his "Boston School" friends Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, and others. In the 1990s he changed tack somewhat, producing soft-focus cityscapes in which street lights, street corners and urban signage were elaborated into a soft blur. With 615 Jefferson Avenue, Armstrong returns to the subject of his youth. The photographer's first monograph in ten years, it gathers portraits of young boys taken in his turn-of-the-century row house in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, or at his farm in upstate New York, all of which were made in the course of taking fashion photographs. Low-key in their eroticism, these images always aim for a tangible, evident contact with their subjects: "It always has been this act of seduction, where you are trying to get the subjects to reveal themselves before the camera," Armstrong put it in a recent New York Times interview. The rooms in which Armstrong shoots are painted in rich, dense, mint greens and browns, matching the period of the house itself, so that an atmosphere of enveloping interior catches the outlines of these boys, posed upon the many couches that fill Armstrong's home. Filled with the excitement of rediscovering familiar terrain anew, this volume collects 120 of Armstrong's color and black-and-white portraits.

Title:   615 Jefferson Avenue
Publisher: Damiani
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good 
Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
Edition: 1st Edition
Edition Run: N/A
Size:  35 x 27 cm
Pages: 176

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