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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