William-Wegman---Ray-O-Vac

American photographer, video artist, conceptual artist, sculptor, draughtsman and painter. He studied painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (BFA, 1965), and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (MFA. 1967). During these years he produced Minimalist sculptures and paintings. In the early 1970s he used video and photography, primarily as a means of documenting such conceptual works as Untied On Tied Off (1972), a photograph of the artist’s feet with one shoe on, untied, the other with the shoe tied to his ankle.