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B.C. Binning
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richard prince Seminal American artist Richard Prince (b. 1949) works in painting, photography and sculpture and draws inspiration from both American mainstream mass media as well as various subcultures. He often appropriates commercial imagery, rephotographing advertising pages and carefully cropping out all copy until only images of consumer aspiration—interior decor, luxury goods, product logos, and fashion models—remain. His most famous series of works are based on images of the Marlboro Man and are appropriated from cigarette advertising. In 2005, Prince’s Untitled (Cowboy) photograph set an auction record (since broken) for the highest price ever paid for a photograph, selling for US$1,248,000.00. In subsequent works, found photographs depicting archetypal figures ranging from cowboys and biker girls to entertainers are often paired with hand copied cartoons, old jokes from the annals of Borscht Belt humor, or pulp novels. Prince conceived the inaugural edition of the Presentation House Gallery/Lynn Valley series of artist publications. He has exhibited widely and is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, recently mounted a major traveling career retrospective of his work.
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