William Wegman, artist, photographer, lover of Weimaraner dogs

Recorded Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Moderated by WAMC's Joe Donahue
Main Theatre, UAlbany Performing Arts Center
University at Albany
William Wegman is a beloved American artist known throughout the world for photographs and videos that feature his Weimaraner dogs in a variety of costumes and poses.
Wegman's work is held in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has also created film and video works for Saturday Night Live, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Street and appeared on The Tonight Show, The David Letterman Show, and The Colbert Report.
The author of many books for children, Wegman is also the creator of numerous short segments featuring his dogs for "Sesame Street." His book William Wegman: Writing by Artist (2022) is his first collection to focus on his multifaceted and deeply funny relationship to language, spanning the early 1970s to the present.
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