William Wegman

“I’m turning them into mythical characters, I’m not just making fools out of them.”

Anthropomorphism

any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things

"I didn't talk…I just listened to what he was listening to, the whole aura of smells and sounds and sights and things that he was picking up on during that day. Most people who have dogs see them as their dogs: 'Come on, boy,' or 'Fetch' or pat-pat. But they're really teeming with their own thoughts."

How does this affect his photographs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdI_SWIhn-E&feature=BFa&list=PLE321D638FBE17BD7&lf=rellist&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Pick a photograph from your group’s book and answer the following question:

What influenced William Wegman when he photographed this picture? Consider (but you are not limited to) popular culture, well known stories, society’s stereotypes and ideals, art

movements and artists, and anthropomorphism.