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Artist sells other people’s Instagram photos for $90,000!

Controversial painter and artist Richard Prince has caused a stir by taking screenshots of other people's Instagram photos and selling prints without their permission.
Posted by: admin , May 28, 2015
  • Controversial painter and artist Richard Prince has caused a stir by taking screenshots of other people’s Instagram photos and selling prints without their permission.
  • Prince’s work was displayed in New York as part of his ‘New Portraits’ exhibition, where he blew up the photos, printed them on canvas and sold them for $90,000 a piece!
  • Prince defended his actions by saying he made “transformative” changes to the photos, which included removing comments and adding strange comments of his own underneath the photos.
  • According to the Washington Post, Prince has been re-photographing other people’s art since the 1970s.
  • However, Prince relies on “transformative” changes, which resulted in him winning a court case in 1998 after he was sued by French photographer Patrick Cariou. In that case, he re-photographed Cariou’s images of the Jamaican Rastafarian community and ‘transformed’ them by adding things such as paint splotches and guitars…
  • Many of Prince’s current pieces were reportedly taken from the Suicide Girls Instagram account.
  • Suicide Girls founder Selena Mooney (known as Missy Suicide) confirms that Prince did not get consent but that instead of suing him, they will sell prints of his ‘transformations’ for $90, with proceeds going to charity and that they’ve obtained the same consent he obtained from Suicide Girls.

Read more:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/27/suicide-girls-richard-prince-copying-instagram

http://www.inquisitr.com/2123637/artist-prints-screenshots-of-other-peoples-instagram-photos-on-canvas-sells-them-for-90000-at-art-show/

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/you-can-now-buy-a-90000-richard-prince-instagram-work-or-a-90-copy/?_r=0

 

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