Martin Kuntz, Author, William Wegman, Author ABRAMS $39.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3951-6
Painter-photographer Wegman is best known for his pet dogs, notably the late Man Ray, a weimaraner. He portrays dogs in bed watching TV, dressed up as an elephant or a frog, on roller skates, etc. These jokey pictures have won him a reputation as a...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3930-7
The Weimeraner siblings from 2013’s Flo & Wendell embark on a close-to-home camping trip, with Wegman again using photographs for the dogs’ heads and loosely painting their bodies and clothing in gouache. Nowhere does the dogs’ personalities shine...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books for Children $6.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0104-6
Wegman has drafted his weimaraner family into a bona fide cottage industry. In these witty sequels to A,B,C, man and dogs efficiently present seven geometric figures and the numbers one through 10. Both eight-inch-square books are printed on heavy...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books for Children $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0218-0
With their amber eyes and slouching postures, the weimaraner dogs photographed by Wegman haunt readers; the artist's use of human limbs in place of the animals' paws adds another dimension of strangeness. Yet in this collection of nursery rhymes,...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books for Children $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0216-6
Imagine Grant Wood's American Gothic with weimaraners, and you'll have a notion of this volume's humorous contents. For his cover image, Wegman photographs two stoic dogs in overalls, one holding a hoe and the other a rake. These, readers learn, are
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books for Children $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0320-0
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...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0410-8
Photogenic weimaraner Chip, who played a big-city naif in Wegman's Farm Days, helps send up small-town life in this affectionately campy salute. Via captions, voice bubbles and rectangular color photos (layered like comic book panels), readers learn
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books $34 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6486-7
Just when Wegman seems to have stretched his weimaraner art pretty thin--what with his Fay's Fairy Tales series and concept books published for young readers, videos and merchandise--comes a disarming book to remind everyone of the wit and offhand...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books for Children $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0585-3
Kitsch is king in this effortful enterprise, which reflects a hefty amount of labor but does not deliver a commensurate amount of reward for young readers. As in My Town, Wegman's famous weimaraners--here, Chip, Batty, Chundo and Crooky--are cast as
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author . Hyperion $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0606-5
Some picture book characters yearn so ferociously for a pet that they begin to act like one, only to wake up and become human again. Wegman (Puppies) proposes a more radical solution. Chip, the title character, is not quite a boy. He is recognizably
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman. Dial, $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3933-8
Gray Weimaraner puppies show off their driving, riding, and flying skills in this lighthearted board book. Wegman photographs the dogs in active poses, then draws and paints settings around them: one worried dog, ears and legs akimbo, is posed atop...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3928-4
Wegman continues his string of Weimeraner stories, but he tweaks his approach. Instead of dressing big sister Flo and younger brother Wendell in actual clothing, he paints lumpy, toddlerlike bodies below photos of their stately dog heads with...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author Hyperion Books $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56282-696-3
The wizard of weimaraners outdoes himself in posing his graceful canines to illustrate A through Z. The four members of a weimaraner squad, positioned on a colorless ground and photographed from above, form the shape of each letter. Below, a caption
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author, William Wegman, Illustrator Hyperion Books $30 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0450-4
Wegman's fans will recognize Man Ray, Chundo, Chip and his many other weimaraners in this treasury edition, Wegmanology. The volume incorporates previously published work alongside new photographs to convey basic concepts. Three canines in...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author, William Wegman, Illustrator Hyperion Books $19.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1849-5
William Wegman turns fashion on its ear with Batty the weimaraner raiding wardrobes everywhere in Dressup Batty. The savvy pooch possesses wigs of blond, brunette and auburn, a pom-pom purse and longhorn cowboy boots-just for starters. A fold-out...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author, William Wegman, Illustrator Hyperion Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56282-348-1
With his signature humorous, surreal photographs of weimaraners, the creator of Man's Best Friend glibly retells a much-loved story. Wegman poses his canine models in minimal sets; the dogs' heads pop out of kitschy gowns and campy wigs, while human
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Author, William Wegman, Illustrator Hyperion Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56282-416-7
Arriving on the tails of Cinderella , the second of Fay's Fairy Tales continues to feature photographer Wegman's famously photogenic weimaraners, but, unlike the previous book, reflects a predominantly adult sensibility. Wegman experiments more here,
READ FULL REVIEW
William Wegman, Text by (Art/Photo Books), William Wegman, Photographer, William Wegman, Author ABRAMS $49.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3480-1
Although Wegman's artistic output includes photography and video work that doesn't feature canines, ""by the mid-Seventies,"" he wryly notes, ""I had become the guy with the dog."" The dog was Man Ray, a weimaraner with a movie star's instinct for...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
