David Armstrong, the underground in full light – Liberation

In the dark rooms of the Luma tower hides a treasure: the photographs of David Armstrong, youth friend of Nan Goldin. Therefore, Found on a farm ten years ago. However, just after the death of the photographer in 2014, this work is scripted by the painter Wade Guyton who now supervises theestate of the photographer. Meanwhile, Following a chronological order. Moreover, the hanging started in the mid-1970s, in Boston, where the friendship was born between a small troop of artists at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, a group of friends who will then be called the Boston School. David Armstrong then photographs his relatives. his friends, his lovers, in particular in Provincetown, a village at the end of Cap Cod (Massachusetts), where the students meet to have a good time in the open air. The sensuality david armstrong, underground full light which makes the particularity of the signature of David Armstrong is later found in black. white portraits, in 6×6 format, for many taken in New York.

Among these superb photographs. we recognize familiar faces, that of Nan Goldin, so young, or that of Cookie Mueller, their dazzling friend, heroine of the American counter-culture. On large tables. the contact boards are exposed under the window, which suddenly makes these moments of intimacy and exchange that are the shots. In a separate room, Night and Daya color slideshow, deploys photographs taken on Kodachrome film. At the beach, in parties or cars, the underground lets itself be seized by the erotic objective of David Armstrong. Canon.