WEGMAN, WILLIAM FAY.

Author: Reeves, Howard W., ed
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 127
Illustrations: 146 Color Illustrations. 16 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 11 1/2”x 9”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 786864869
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5602

Price: $19.50

Always celebrated for his photographic works and paintings starring weimaraner Man Ray, Wegman resisted getting another dog after Man Ray died in 1982. Then he fell in love at first sight with a dog named Cinnamon Girl, and inspired by a dream, he adopted her and called her Fay Ray. Still he had no intention of photographing her. Fay didn’t adjust well to city life, and Wegman almost sent her back, but she lost all her nervousness in front of the camera, and the artist realized he had another star on his hands. This is a profoundly loving and beautifully illustrated tribute to Fay’s life, in many ways retrieving Wegman’s artistic sensibilities from the excesses of corny humor in some of his weimaraner-infested film and book projects. The images here capture the delicate and changeable nature of Fay’s working career; her intelligence and temperament; her whelping of the next generation of canine hams, including Batty, Chundo, and Crooky; and her sudden decline in 1995 with canine leukemia.