Girlfriends
Richard Prince has had a lot of girlfriends in his day and I just love that he was able to document them with these photos!
Cowboys
Richard Prince’s Cowboy series was really a turning point in his career. They way that he captured the essence of the everyday rustic Marlboro man on his journey through a post-apocalyptic wasteland speak volumes about his talent.
Warhol Foundation Asks Appeals Court to Overturn Prince Copyright Infringement Finding
Great coverage over on ArtNet Read the statement from the Warhol Foundation Below The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has filed a brief in New York urging a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court’s ruling that … Continue reading
Jeremy Biles on Spiritual America
Artist Richard Prince (b. 1949) is at once an observer, purveyor, and critic of an American spirituality shaped through promiscuous borrowings from the everyday world. Prince is best known for his technique of “rephotography,” a formal descendant of Marcel Duchamp’s … Continue reading
Richard Prince Reviews Bob Dylan’s Paintings
Richard Prince writes a very interesting review of Bob Dylan’s paintings I was lucky to be invited to see Bob Dylan’s paintings when I was in L.A. this past winter. Part of the seeing was how I got there. I’m … Continue reading
Why Richard Prices Attends The Movies Alone
This is one of Richard Price’s more celebrated writings from 1980 Why I go to the Movies Alone Pg. 3-6 The Perfect Tense A lot of people wish they were someone else. And some of us would like to exchange … Continue reading
Flip Flops
You can’t get them like this anymore!
Bringing It All Back Home, 1988
Today I reread the first part of The White Album by Joan Didion. I put an acetate protector around the dust jacket of a first edition of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and I read parts of it again before putting … Continue reading
1982-1984
By the early 80′s you can really see that Richard Prince started to explore a different style in his photography.
Instructions for Filming (a little repetitive from Photospheres) 1977, West llth St. NYC
Photographing or re-photographing photographs is reckless. Film has a natural ability to appropriate and pirate. Published pictures are available to anyone who cares to use them and re-photographing a published image is making a new picture effortlessly. Re-photographing a previously … Continue reading