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A Selection of Masks

In honor of Halloween, here is a selection of masks from WW's prop room. Read on if you dare!

WW at the Met

First Major Exhibition Devoted to History of Manipulated Photography Before Digital Age Opens at Metropolitan Museum October 11
October 11, 2012—January 27, 2013

Exhibition Location: Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Gallery

While digital photography and image-editing software have brought about an increased awareness of the degree to which camera images can be manipulated, the practice of doctoring photographs has existed since the medium was invented. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age. Featuring some 200 visually captivating photographs created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, the exhibition offers a provocative new perspective on the history of photography as it traces the medium’s complex and changing relationship to visual truth.

Read the rest here.

WW on Rangeley

WW talks about the first time he went to Rangeley, Maine, in this segment from his slide talk at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

WW and Honda

Do you remember this Honda commercial that WW made in the 90's?

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Goodbye, Hello Nature

Hello Nature has said goodbye to Bowdoin.  Much has been written about the exhibition; the reviews, mostly good. I really enjoyed every aspect of the show from the very beginning to end.  

The opening reception was great. My 90-year-old father George made a surprise appearance thanks to my cousin LeeAnn Herrick. George is blind from macular degeneration and rarely goes anywhere these days. Both my sister Pam and I were completely surprised to see him.  

The president of Bowdoin, Barry Mills, acknowledged him warmly during introductory remarks before my talk, which made me glow.  My entire family was there, my wife Christine, my kids Atlas and Lola, my sister Pam and beau Ernie. There was a great group of friends from Rangeley.  And of course, the three dogs Candy, Bobbin and Flo. 

 

Photo by Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios

To make the opening even more eventful we received our new puppy Topper from breeder Brian Meany.

 

Topper

 

So now we have ten dogs. Bobbin, Candy, Flo, Flo, Flo. Flo, Topper, Topper, Topper, and Topper.   Or so it seems.

Friends, relatives, and helpers played with the dogs while I endured a lengthy book signing. Book signing is fun...at first. 

 

Photo by Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios

 

When it was over I was glad to pack up and get back to Rangeley. But of course that not is the end of it. I had to meet the New York Times video person and she followed be around the place with her camera for a couple of days. Being a famous artist can be tiring.

 

-- WW

William Wegman: Hello Nature has closed at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, but the catalog is available here. Check back here for details on future venues.

WW on the Maine Coast

 

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Bloglove: Time NewsFeed

 

William Wegman, X-ray Double Exposure, 2004

 

 

WW is featured in a slideshow of polaroid photographs of Time's NewsFeed blog. Have a look here.