David Armstrong, All Day Every Day

Edited by Martin Jaeggi
Conversation with D. Armstrong

Scalo, Zurich 2002

28,8 x 42,5 cm, 144 pages mit 98 color plates, Ill'index, Cloth, English
ISBN 978-3908247562

 

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 flaneur adrift on urban streets and rural roads. 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.