All a Blur

Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer known for his blurred colour 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 21 languages and published in more than 30 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. Brian Sholis was previously an editor at Artforum and Aperture and the curator of photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He is a writer, editor, and the co-founder of Valise, an inventory tool for artists. He lives in Toronto. Collier Brown is a poet, photography critic, and literary scholar. He holds a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University, where he continues to teach, and an MFA in Poetry from McNeese State University. He is the former editor at 21st Editions and Od Review. His essays on photography have appeared in more than 20 books.