All a Blur: Photographs from the Infinity Series

Over the last 25 years, Bill Armstrong has pioneered the unique approach of blurring appropriated images—a medium at the intersection of photography, painting and collage. 

All a Blur presents some 300 pulsating color images that offer alternate visions of history, religion and philosophy. Armstrong’s photographs range from mysterious falling figures sourced from the Renaissance to vibrating color spheres akin to Buddhist mandalas. He transforms these into hypnotic visual objects in a volume that is both aesthetically rewarding and a potential pathway to heightened awareness.

Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer known for his blurred color work. His Infinity series has been exhibited in over 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions over the past 25 years. Mr. Armstrong’s Sistine Gestures is a permanent installation in the Vatican Museums in Rome.

Lyle Rexer holds two degrees from Columbia University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including How to Look at Outsider Art (2005), The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009), and The Critical Eye: 15 Pictures to Understand Photography (2019). He has published hundreds of catalogue essays, reviews, and articles on art, photography, and contemporary literature and contributed to such publications as the New York Times, Art in America, Aperture, BOMB, Harper’s, and The Brooklyn Rail.

A. D. Coleman is an independent American critic, historian, educator, and curator of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published eight books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. He has lectured and taught internationally; his work has been translated into twenty-one languages and published in more than thirty countries.

Katherine Ware is Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art and served as Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other positions. She is author of numerous publications on historic and contemporary photography.

W. M. “Bill” Hunt is a New York-based collector, curator and consultant—a champion of photography. His collection Dancing Bear consists of magical, heart-stopping images of people whose eyes cannot be seen. The book of his collection, The Unseen Eye, is published by Aperture.