About the Artwork
Wegman’s artistic production in the 1970s primarily involved video, conceptual art, and, eventually, black-and-white sequential photography. In 1979 he was one of many artists invited by the Polaroid Corporation to experiment with a large-format camera at their studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 20 x 24 inch view camera produces high-resolution prints of exceptionally vivid color. Wegman, who was initially reluctant to use the equipment, became excited about the instantaneous results of the medium and found it comparable to video playback. Wegman began to include his dog (or “art partner,” as Wegman liked to call him) Man Ray in many photographs from the early 1970s until the dog’s death in 1982. Man Ray was eventually replaced by a female Weimaraner named Fay Ray, who appears in Herringboned.
Herringboned
1988
William Wegman
born 1943
American
Unknown
Color instant print (polaroid)
Image: 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant
F1989.9
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1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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William Wegman, Herringboned, 1988, color instant print (Polaroid). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant, F1989.9.
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