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.

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.