NEW YORK (AP) – The city’s Madison Square Park is going to the dogs: the famous Weimaraners that belong to art photographer William Wegman.

Starting Friday, a Wegman video called “Around the Park” will be projected on four outdoor monitors near the park’s Shake Shack, renown for its juicy hamburgers.

Wegman, whose works have been displayed at museums and art galleries around the world, is known for dressing up his pooches as people. The Manhattan park project is no exception.

When they’re not making headlines on the New York art scene, Wegman and dogs live in Rangeley, Maine.

This time, they’re playing the roles of park workers and lunchtime visitors.

“I wanted to turn my dogs into the people who are there,” Wegman explains in a videotaped interview on the park’s Web site.

The installation includes a shot of two Weimaraners sitting on chairs around a small metal table near the Shake Shack eating lunch. One’s wearing a trenchcoat, the other a sweatshirt.

Wegman decided one of the most interesting people at the park is “the guy who picks up trash and rakes leaves and drives this gas-powered cart.”

So he had his assistant “hiding on the gas pedal” as one of the dogs – wearing coveralls and black shirt – sat behind the wheel seemingly driving the cart. At one point, a human hand makes it appear the dog is gesturing.

As they taped the strange scenes, passers-by were “sometimes paying attention, sometimes not,” said Wegman.

For the dogs, the hamburgers weren’t the only temptation.

“These dogs are really intense about squirrels,” noted Wegman. “They drag me there; they could care less about other dogs. And I thought they might break the pose and be too hard to contain.”

But unlike some temperamental human stars, these actors were professional to the very end.

The seven-minute video installation, which also includes a retrospective of other Wegman works, runs through Oct. 28.