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William Wegman (born December 2, 1943) is an American artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.〔Henry Bond, "Wegman's Ritual: William Wegman in London," ''Creative Camera'', Issue 307, December–January 1991, p. 44.〕 ==Life and career== Wegman reportedly originally intended to pursue a career as a painter. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1965 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1967. While teaching at California State University, Long Beach, he acquired the first and most famous of the dogs he photographed, a Weimaraner he named Man Ray (after the artist and photographer). Man Ray later became so popular that the Village Voice named him "Man of the Year" in 1982. He named a subsequent dog ''Fay Ray'' (a play on the name of actress Fay Wray). On January 29, 1992, Wegman appeared on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' and showed a video clip of ''Dog Duet'', a short which he made in 1975 featuring Man Ray and another dog slowly and mysteriously peering around. The artist explained that he had created the video by moving a tennis ball around, off-camera, thus capturing the dogs' attention (). The same year, he did three network ID's for Nickelodeon starring the dogs on pedestals. His 1983 drawing, ''Visit the New Facility,'' became the illustration image for the splash page of Franklin Furnace Archives website when it first launched in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Design History: Website History )〕 He had experimented with early performances with Man Ray at the space when it was located on Franklin Street in Lower Manhattan. He was artist-in-residence at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in spring 2007 where his work featured on campus in the Addison Gallery of American Art. He has also been an artist in residence at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts where his Circus series was created with the college's 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera. He received the college's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1987. He appeared on ''The Colbert Report'' in 2010. Wegman is the author of numerous books for children, including the New York Times bestseller ''Puppies.'' His latest children's book, ''Flo & Wendell,'' is published with Dial Books for Young Readers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Wegman (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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