Shot in the Dark

Taking photos with my eyes closed was an unusual way of taking photos. I didn't get the reason for it until I actually had done it myself. I thought it was a very unique perspective because you see what you are going to take a picture and when you close your eyes, all you can do is visualize it. When I took my pictures, they were different than what i thought I was going to take a picture of. It had different details, like everything I saw wan't in the photos, and the photos showed me things that I didn't recognize at the time.

William Wegman

William Wegman went to art school where he studied painting. He then went to graduate school and became interested in many things besides painting. He began doing performance art, and making videos, some of which featured his first Weimaraner Man Ray. Soon he began taking photographs, too, first starting with making black-and-white prints, and then experimenting with an enormous Polaroid camera the size of a refrigerator. After Man Ray, he adopted a dog he called Fay Ray, and began photographing her using the Polaroid camera. Fay had puppies, Fay’s puppies had puppies, and Wegman photographed, and made videos, of them all. He made a series of children’s books, beginning with fairy tales: Cinderella and Red Riding Hood. His videos were featured on Sesame Street.