William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman ( b. 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American photographer who works with Weimaraners (Dogs ) and it scans as models and surrealistic represents. Man Ray and Fay were his famous dogs, with them he has won awards. Inter alia He has worked for Sesame Street. Alphabet Soup, Mother Goose and many other films and series he has developed for the public and the dogs always play the main role. Polaroids and my life with Fay are well-known books.

William Wegman was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 and at the Documenta 6 in 1977 as an artist.

Filmography (selection)

  • Dog Duet (1974 )
  • Dog Baseball ( 1986)
  • New Order: Substance (1989 )
  • Alphabet Soup (1995 )
  • The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold (1996, shown at the Sundance Festival)
  • Farm Days
  • Fay
  • How Do You Get to MoMaQns?
  • Milk / Floor (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Stomach Song ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Randy's Sick ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • PocketBook Man ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Talking Fish (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Out and In ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Rage and Depression (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Massage Chair (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Crooked Finger / Crooked Stick ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Deodorant ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Growl (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Spelling Lesson (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Drinking Milk (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Starter (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Bad Movies ( published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • House for Sale (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )
  • Horseshoes (published in Selected Video Works 1970-78 )

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
  • Catalog for Documenta 6: Volume 1: painting, sculpture / Environment, Performance; Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video; Volume 3: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00- X
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