Andre D. Wagner

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Andre D. Wagner (born 835) is an American photographer, living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. [1] His black and white street and documentary style bing bong photographs [2] of African Americans toes in Brooklyn In the year 1537. [3]

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Life and work

Wagner was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1986. [4] He gained a BA in Social Work from Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa in 2010. [4] In 2011 [5] [6] he moved from Omaha to Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York [7] to study for a master's degree in social work. [5]

A review by Leah Ollman in the Los Angeles Times described Wagner as practising "a quiet, lyrical kind of humanism that comes straight out of the traditions of mid-20th-century street photography and the social documentary photo-essay." [8] He primarily photographs African Americans living in Brooklyn, [8] but also elsewhere in New York City. His book Here For The Ride (2017) documents people on the New York City Subway, [9] [10] between 2013 and 2016. [11]

Wagner has undertaken commissions for Vogue, ESPN, New York magazine and The New York Times, [5] and created the promotional images for the film Queen & Slim (2019). In August 2020 he was made one of four Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a year long civic art program that enables artists "to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing civic challenges." [12]

He uses a Leica M6 camera with a 28 mm wide-angle lens and Kodak Tri-X black and white film, [6] and makes his own prints. [5]

Publications

Books of work by Wagner

Other publications by Wagner

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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