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This beautiful coolection of full-colour photographs documents the upbringing of Wegman's world-famous weinmareners. An accompanying text provides a comprehensive history of these prodigious models.
Author Notes
William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965. In 1967, He received an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Wegman taught painting at various universities, but later became interested in photography and video.
Wegman may be best-known for his photography involving his Weimaraner dogs in various poses and costumes. His work can be seen in museums throughout Europe and the United States, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Wegman was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Show in 1992, and his dogs have had appearances on Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street.
Wegman lives in New York and Maine.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
For two decades, photographer Wegman (William Wegman's Mother Goose) has focused on his weimaraner menagerie, as this unusual and amiable album indicates. Part documentary, part catalogue raisonne and part coffee-table book, this photo essay opens with a (canine) family tree and contains Wegman's affectionate recollections of his companions. Color images of the dogs from their first days through adulthood, prove that these puppies have grown up facing the camera. Soon after their birth, Wegman arranges them in squirmy piles; later, he tosses them in the air, and an assistant captures on film their sailing ears, splayed legs and blank stares ("In their trust in us, they are oblivious"). The artist avoids warm fuzzy softness, which he calls "the cuddly-bear greeting card phase" and contends that newborn pups are "more alien than cute." Aesthetics, wit and pathos inform every image (notably a quartet of blurred, desperate shots of a puppy trying to swim). Only the steeliest cynic could remain unmoved by photos of sightless puppies propped on wood blocks or squinting blue-eyed pups nestled in cloth cocoons. This enormously appealing volume contains artistic tension and fatherly pride enough for any collector of Wegman's past work or newcomers to his photography. All ages. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
In this photographic journal, Wegman reflects on the lives of his Weimaraners, in particular, the birth of four litters of puppies and his work photographing them. Artfully composed photos feature the dogs in a variety of poses, such as in the water, perched in trees, and wearing clothing. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
