Andre D. Wagner: New City, Old Blues: The Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, (Hardcover)

<p><b>Documenting Bushwick's changing streets with an analog camera, Wagner joins a lineage of American street photographers addressing questions of race, class and identity</b></p><p>Brooklyn-based photographer Andre D. Wagner (born 1983) has created some of the most iconic portraits of Black celebrities in recent memory--Lewis Hamilton officially joining Ferrari; Beyoncé on the cover of <i>Essence</i>; Tramell Tillman for the <i>New York Times</i>; and Kendrick Lamar and SZA's official promotional image for the Grand National Tour. Before these commissions, he had spent more than a decade exploring and documenting New York City street life, with a particular focus on Bushwick's changing landscape. A resident of the neighborhood since 2011, Wagner captures the joys and hardships of Black life in the city. This publication, representing the 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize, charts Bushwick's changing landscape as seen through Wagner's lens between 2014 and 2024. It also includes an essay by the acclaimed writer Hanif Abdurraqib, author of <i>They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us</i> and <i>A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance</i>. </p>

• Andre D. Wagner: New City, Old Blues: The Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, (Hardcover)
• Author: Andre D Wagner
• ISBN: 9783969995372
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-08-11
• Page Count: 88