Interview with Bill Armstrong
This morning, the Aperture Foundation blog featured an interview with artist Bill Armstrong, whose work commanded my attention immediately. His most recent exhibition is a series of extremely out of focus human figures in an indeterminate environment. From these abstract images, one can extract incredible amounts of meaning. To me, it seems this is perhaps similar to the way one interprets a scene in the first softly-focused instant that they encounter it, grasping one's surroundings. This work is also very similar to some of the work of Zeb Andrews, whose style I have admired since I began photographing seriously.
Bill Armstrong also has some very interesting thoughts, and I highly recommend reading the entire interview (which is not of an unreasonable length) and looking at some of his other works.
