In the early 1980s, Wang frequented and photographed Club 57, a nightclub on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village, New York City that served as a mecca for filmmakers, artists, and musicians.
His photographs of Club 57 regulars included Anne Magnuson, John "Lypsinka" Epperson, Kai Eric, Tseng Kwong Chi, Dany Johnson, Charlotte Slivka, Tom Scully, Klaus Nomi, Wendy Wild, John Sex, Deb O'Nair, Keith Haring, James Chance, Pat Place, Anya Phillips, and others.
Subjects included Vince DiMaggio, Ernie Banks, Roger Maris, Harmon Killebrew, Gene Woodling, Harvey Haddix, Willie McCovey, Pumpsie Green, and Dusty Rhodes.
Subjects included Susan Rotolo, Claudette Robinson, Angie Bowie, Ingrid Croce, Bebe Buell, and Carlene Carter.
[12] Subjects included Ella Baker, a civil rights activist; Eddie Day, the Cyclone rollercoaster brakeman at Coney Island, Brooklyn; Joey Faye, a burlesque comedian; Tom Rella, a gravedigger at the Bayside Cemetery in Queens; Aston Robinson, a waiter at Gage and Tollner in Brooklyn; Helen Giamanco, the longest-working employee at Horn & Hardart in New York City; Edward Robb Ellis, the writer of one of the longest diaries in the world; Editta Sherman, the “Duchess of Carnegie Hall” and portrait photographer; and Benesh Horowitz, a typesetter at The Forward.
[19] In the film, Wang accompanies Milton and Anne Rogovin as they shoot the final portraits in their “Quartets” series on Buffalo, New York’s Lower West Side.
[21] Starting in 2008, Wang began to explore how photographers were affected by the momentous change in photography in the wake of the transition from film to digital methods.
[23][24][25] Subjects included Jerome Liebling, George Tice, Elliott Erwitt, David Goldblatt, Sally Mann, Gregory Crewdson, Susan Meiselas, Eugene Richards, Steven Sasson, who built the first digital camera at Kodak, and Thomas Knoll, who alongside his brother created Photoshop.