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. “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 identity.  Armstrong’s mysterious and poetic photographs range from falling figures sourced from the Renaissance to vibrating color spheres akin to Buddhist mandalas—all transformed into hypnotic visual objects.  Armstrong foregrounds qualities that photographers have been attempting to exploit since the early twentieth century: focus and color.  He is deeply engaged with exploring the implications, meanings, and aesthetics of blur, and he has made color the subject of optical, perceptual and emotional investigation as Albers had done in painting. His work has dramatically expanded the repertoire of arrested gazing and encouraged viewers to use photographs in unexpected ways: as meditational instruments, as sublime forms of nothing, and as pathways to heightened awareness.” —Lyle Rexer "Across 300 pulsating color photographs pulled from the Infinity series, the volume showcases the sensitivity and restraint Armstrong exercises throughout his creative process. In these images, there is nothing extraneous, nor are there the typical distractions of high-definition details. It seems wise to adopt a new perspective, one grounded not in reality but in perception, in order to properly engage with the book’s photographs."   —My Modern Met "All a Blur is both a visual and philosophical journey through Armstrong’s decades-long investigation into the boundaries of seeing. The work resonates with the legacies of Color Field painting, while remaining rooted in the photographic tradition. Through his deliberate distortion of form, Armstrong reminds us that beauty lies not in clarity or representation, but in the act of seeing itself."  —LENSCRATH -- Lyle Rexer 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 War e 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. “Color had never been thematized in photography, that is, made the subject of optical, perceptual and emotional investigation as Albers had done in painting―until Armstrong made it an end in itself.” “Blur is one of those aspects of photography that can serve as a barometer of cultural and aesthetic history, and Armstrong has been the photographer most deeply engaged with exploring its implications, and not merely perceptual ones.” “Armstrong’s exhibitions have dramatically expanded the repertoire of arrested gazing and encouraged v