David Armstrong: Portraits
Archive Director at David Armstrong Archive Colleen Doyle, Executive Director & Chief Curator of Artists Space Jay Sanders, and Deputy Director of Artists Space Kelly Taxter join writer Travis Diehl for a conversation on Zoom.

The New Social Environment #1350
Recorded on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:

🚩 David Armstrong —— David Armstrong (1954–2014) was an American photographer and a key figure of the Boston School, a group of avant-garde artists that included Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, and Tabboo!, among others. Perhaps best known for his medium-format black-and-white portraits of the friends and lovers who surrounded him in Boston, Provincetown, and New York City, Armstrong later developed a career in fashion photography, often photographing models at his home in Brooklyn. He also maintained a landscape practice, beginning in the early 1990s with soft-focus black-and-white images of formal gardens, parks, and city streets, and eventually expanding into color studies of the urban and rural spaces he lived between.
• https://www.davidarmstrongarchive.com/

🚩 Travis Diehl —— Travis Diehl writes criticism for the New York Times and a monthly column, “Libra Season,” for Spike. His chapbook “A Snake Whistles” is new from S*I*G Verlag.

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