Shaun Calley's Shoe, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, Calif., Winter

A chromogenic print on Kodak Professional paper, this work by Richard Prince captures a solitary shoe belonging to Shaun Calley at the legendary Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles during winter. True to Prince's longstanding fascination with appropriation, celebrity culture, and the charged atmosphere of iconic spaces, the image elevates an everyday object into a study of glamour and transience. The full margins of the print emphasize the photograph's formal qualities, inviting the viewer to consider the boundary between the mundane and the mythologized.