Thursday, December 6, 2007

A Copy Is Art. So What's the Original?

“Since the late 1970s,” writes Randy Kennedy, “when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries — the question has always hovered just outside the frames: ‘What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures, apotheosized into art but without their names anywhere in sight?’”
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Published: 20071205
Images from the works of Richard Prince and Jim Krantz.

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