Richard Prince
Visual Artist
1949 –
Who is Richard Prince?
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975. His image, Untitled, 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.
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. His Jokes series concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.
After living in New York City for 25 years, Prince moved to upstate New York. His mini-museum, Second House, purchased by the Guggenheim Museum, was struck by lightning and burned down shortly after the museum purchased the House, having only stood for six years, from 2001 to 2007.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1949
Panama Canal Zone - Also known as
- Prince, Richard
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Nasson College
- Lived in
- Panama Canal Zone
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on July 23, 2013
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