Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began copying other photographer's work in 1975. His image, Untitled, a rephotographing 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth6 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
sports jobs people
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.
art golf games
The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.
art impulse dangerous
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
names pennies changed
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.