We were so proud and pleased to release the images above and below from legendary photographer, painter and conceptual artist William Wegman as a limited-edition print pair on 20x200 Wednesday.

Jen introduced the editions in the 20x200 newsletter:

William's work is the perfect incarnation of Bill the person...
He's so funny, affable and distracted that it's easy to underestimate him. People think of him as the dog guy and don't even know that he's an artist with a broader practice. Even if people do know about his other work, they complain about his obsessive repetition of a theme (the postcards), to which I say: who hasn't met an obsessive artist before? The dogs and the humor belie a very intense, earnest and important inquiry.

For more on Wegman, his process, and quirky sense of humor, check out this short essay on Art:21 about the photograph Cotto.

His own site, Wegman World, hosts a solid selection of video work that also informs his practice.

If nothing else, Wegman is extremely prolific. But to say he is just that is to sell him as short as to only know him for the photographs of the dogs. He's spent a lifetime looking hard at, yes, Weimaraners, but also at us humans and the way we experience humor, art and life.