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David Brandon Geeting

American photographer and artist (born 1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ115062278
Source-derived summary

David Brandon Geeting (born 1989) is a photographer and artist based in New York City. His work bridges genres, including a mix of still life, portraiture, and happenstance captures.

Early life and education

Geeting graduated from New York's School of Visual Arts in 2011.

Career

Geeting has named William Eggleston and Roe Ethridge as two important artists who influenced his work. He has been commissioned to take photographs for publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, and Time.

In 2015, his monograph Infinite Power was published by Pau Wau Publications. In 2017, his second book Amusement Park was published by Lodret Vandret.

Journalist Michael Paulson considered Geeting as a skilled artist in "object portraiture".

Exhibitions

2018: Amusement Park, Janet Borden (New York City)

2020: Neighborhood Stroll, Janet Borden (New York City)

2022: The Marble, 10 14 Gallery (London)

Books

Infinite Power. Pau Wau Publications, 2015.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “David Brandon Geeting” is american photographer and artist (born 1989). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through David, Brandon and Geeting, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2011, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. For this dossier, David, Brandon and Geeting is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115062278. VIAF identifies the subject as 918154983526567860006. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2011, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from David Brandon Geeting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.