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William Wegman Techniques
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Video Art
William Wegman also creates videos of his dogs doing human-like activities with human arms. These have been featured on Sesame Street, and he has also created a two-hour-long movie called The Hardly Boys.
Canon Aside
Color Polaroid
20X24 inches
2000
Front Façade
1993 24x20 in.
Color Polaroid
William Wegman
William Wegman is a photographer who is famous for taking pictures of his dogs in different scenes. He was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in painting. He enrolled in the graduate painting and printmaking program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned his MFA.
Wegman gets his inspiration from his love of dogs. His first dog was named Man Ray and became famous from the many pictures of him in human clothes.
William Wegman
Dogs and Photography
William Wegman takes pictures of his dogs in different poses wearing different human clothes. To achieve a more "realistic" version of a scene, he puts the dogs on elevated stilts, and then takes pictures of them in an interesting background.
This picture shows a dog sitting on a red couch with a woman's dress and hand. There is a white and gold pillow on the couch opposite from the dog, and there is a painting of the same dog and wig on the white wall behind the couch.
The artist uses organic form to create informal balance, and he uses texture to emphasize a contrast between the dog head and the rest of the scene. The dog head is proportional to the rest of the scene which creates a more unusual and weird affect.
I believe that the artist was trying to create an unusual and unsettling depiction of a dog in women's clothes. I also think that there is a connection between the title, "Stepmother", and the use of a dog as the central theme.
Stepmother
Color Polaroid
24X20 inches
1992
I believe that the artist is completely successful in creating an unsettling image, and his use of the dog as the main character helps to emphasize his connection between "Stepmother" and a dog.
William
Wegman