My name is Robbin Michael Wagner and I live my life as a fine art nude photographer in the Vieux Carré and sometimes as Artist-At-Large. I was the first photographer to have my photographic nudes exhibited in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Penthouse in New Orleans on Canal Street when it opened its doors for business in 2000. It is located in the former Maison Blanche department store building.

I am "old school" and "new school" and do both film and digital photography. I produced a huge body of work over twenty years while living in the Vieux Carré (French Quarter) New Orleans. I photograph actresses, models, strippers, prostitutes, runaways, drug and alcohol addicts, politicians, law enforcement, judges and women from all walks of life. All women are beautiful.

My fascinating career follows in the footsteps of E.J. Bellocq. John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873-1949) was a professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district. These have inspired novels, poems and a famous movie. Pretty Baby, 1978, a Louis Malle film starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine and Susan Sarandon.

Many photographs in this section are fine art nudes I produced prior to Hurricane Katrina. I lost everything in Hurricane Katrina including my negatives. My original photographs signed en verso prior to Hurricane Katrina have quadrupled in value.

I photograph female nudes and classic portraits in black & white, monochrome and sepia. I utilize the Zone System as taught to me in 1977 in San Francisco by the late Ansel Adams when I worked as a large format technician for Adolph Gasser on Bryant Street.

I style my own shoots and occasionally do hair and make-up on my models. Currently, I work only in "new school" digital. All prints are archival rated, printed on Photo Rag 315, a 100% White Cotton Rag paper.

I am currently producing new images for my travel guide, The Accidental Nudist, and my online fine art gallery of nudes, located in the Vieux Carré in New Orleans, Louisiana.

IndieWorldProductions@gmail.com

©All Photographs

Robbin Michael Wagner

Vieux Carrè

New Orleans, LA 70116

IndieWorldProductions@gmail.com