Compact Design Letters: A

In 1993 we were photographing the dogs at my studio on Bond St in NYC. I had them on the floor, lying on white canvas and was photographing them with a polaroid camera and black & white film. I was shooting them from above, molding them into various lines and shapes. One configuration, a circle, looked like the letter “O”. A friend suggested we try other letters. So we did. A to Z and then numbers 1 to 10, and then on to punctuation. Moving the dogs across the canvas and placing them in position became a continuous, and occasionally puzzling, preoccupation. The project took about a week to complete. Later that year, we videotaped the dogs performing the letters again, carefully arranging them and then calling them away. By running the video backwards, it appears that the dogs did it all themselves.

More About This Edition:

+ All sizes are sold as an open edition with unique certificates of authenticity signed by William Wegman

+ The white margins for this edition do not follow our typical margin conventions. As always, the above listed sizes are the paper sizes. The approximate image sizes for each are as follows:

10″x8″ paper size: approximately 6″x5″ image size
14″x11″ paper size: approximately 8.5″x7″ image size

+ See all the letters here!