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“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”

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Richard Prince (born August 6, 1949) is an American artist renowned for his provocative appropriation art that challenges traditional notions of originality, authorship, and copyright. Through re-photographing existing images from advertising, magazines, and other media, Prince transforms found visuals into controversial works that explore themes of consumer culture, celebrity, and desire. His "Cowboy" and "Nurse" series have become iconic examples of post-modern art, fetching record prices at major auctions while sparking intense debates about the boundaries between art and theft. more

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