In response to William wegman Exhibit

Javian Pantoja

Prof. Michaels

COMD3230/D190

11 October 2017

The gallery Dressed and Undressed that William Wegman was exhibiting at Sperone Westwater recently was the photograph of dogs’ portraits. This show occupied the third and fourth floor of the gallery. two rectangular rooms, on the third and fourth floor. All the photos he created by using 20×24 Polaroid camera which means that the images can’t be retouched after taking them. Wegman captured those imaging as way to show that dogs are human too and they can be dressed as one and to upend expectations of what it means to be human.

This exhibit of William Wegman uses dogs as his subject to capture the nature of transformation to dog to human being. By giving them clothes to wear, hat or even wigs to show humanistic. By making dogs tall and giving them hands was the only part what these images were about and transformation and creating the greatest illusion in his pictures.

One photo the I actually was interested in was called: Lawn Sculpture, it was an color Polaroid picture that was two panals, each was 24×20 inches and 35×49 inches in frame. This picture stuck out to me because of the way they position the dogs in a huge background that cover the floor as well to show that they was outside in front of there house. Also it was interesting too because of how the dogs and the house become one. It looked like the dogs could into the door because it was almost the same size as the door or maybe a little smaller which it will be a struggle for the dogs to get into the house. But the way he used to capture the dog in a polaroid was interesting because I wonder how many times he took him to make the dogs stay still and look into the camera.