For the last 30 years William Wegman has been able to make an excellent living out of his large format Polaroid photographs of his Weimaraner dogs - starting with the remarkable ‘Man Ray‘.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Wegman, William, 1999, Man’s Best Friend: Photographs and Drawings by William Wegman, (New York: Harry N. Abrams) [Δ]
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Family history
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Bauret, Gabriel (ed. and text) 2001 Color Photography (New York: Assouline) [Includes example color photographs by William Wegman]
• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.236, Plate 109 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of William Wegman this is a useful starting point.]
• Nature Conservancy 2001 In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (Boston: Bulfinch Press - Little Brown and Company) [Location: William Wegman covered for this book: Cobscook Bay, Maine]
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