THE PILGER IN THE CITY
About André Wagner Written by André Wagner
Shift of human, light and time
No picture is manipulated
Editorial note: This archive article presents statements in the context of the photographs discussed here. The quotations are not a general description of the working methods used across every body of work.
Time is sacred to him.
André Wagner spends most of his life expressing the flow of time and its meaning in his paintings.
Coming back from Yamuna River, 2011, 108 x 162 cm, 5 copies
When André Wagner sees the moment somewhere between heaven and earth to capture time in the picture, incredible things happen. The full moon of Manhattan is anything but round. People become saints of all religions.
His photographic time travels, which allow the Burgstadt native and long-sought-for international choice Berliner to commute between the most modern metropolises and the oldest pilgrimage routes, are a well-calculated contrast program, usually with 1200 watt flash generator in his backpack: “The change of man, light and time interests me completely,” says André Wagner.
His pictures can testify to this almost picturesquely. Their secret is extended exposure times and the unmistakable look for a snapshot, in which, however, nothing must spark: “No motif is posed, no image manipulated,” the artist emphasizes.
And yet, for him, every recording is a tightrope walk: ‘If I photograph foreign people from twenty meters away in India, I may not be far from the paparazzi,’ says ‘André Wagner.’
Says one who is himself a star in the scene. For the well-known publicist Wibke von Bonin ("1000 masterpieces"), the Burgstadter is a "magician of color".
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