Saturday, April 7, 2012

Richard Prince


Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer, born in 1949 in Panama.  Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975.  Starting in 1977, Prince photographed four photographs, which previously appeared in the New York Times.  This process of re-photographing continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual America featured Garry Gross’s photo of Brooke Shields at the age of ten, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same name. 

Alfred Stieglitz, Spiritual America, 1923

His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a “rephotograph” of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie’s New York in 2005.


Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 1989

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