Richard Prince
Ektacolor photographic print
Richard Prince's Ektacolor photographic prints exemplify his pioneering practice of rephotography, in which he appropriated and re-shot existing media images to challenge notions of authorship and originality. Driven by a desire to strip away the artificiality of commercial photography and restore a sense of authenticity to the image, Prince worked outside the conventions of traditional photographic practice. His self-identification as an artist rather than a photographer afforded him the conceptual freedom to question who owns an image and what it means to create one.
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- ‘When I first rephotographed an image I was simply trying to put something out there that was more natural looking than it was when I saw it as a photograph. I wanted a more genuine quality of the image and in order to get that and to return to what the image originally was, I decided to rework the photo the same way as it was first worked on. At that time I did not know anything about photography and this gave me a great deal of freedom. I think this would not occur to the real photographer. I did not consider myself as a photographer, I considered myself an artist.’ (Richard Prince interviewed by Noemi Smolik in
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- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 14, 2015
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