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“I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures.”

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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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“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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“Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.”

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“When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs.”

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“At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.”

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“When I worked on an erotic shoot... I shot digitally. It helped the models get into it because they could come over and see what was happening. It was the closest to being sexual, because it was a participatory experience.”

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“I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.”

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