Credit: Richard Prince/Gagosian Gallery/Boy Genius Report
Recipe for success as an artist:
● capture photographs from Instagram
● make some minor adjustments to the image (optional)
● add a comment in the style of Instagram
● print as in the image above
● sell for ~$90,000
http://bgr.com/2015/05/26/instagram-prints-photos-richard-prince-art/ / pretentious nonsense posts online permanently etched on the Internet tweet photo digital existence sharing items photos friends concerns about privacy profiting from your personal photos dynamics Richard Prince “artist” skill set photographing other people’s photographs adjusting them slightly selling enormous profit Prince’s most recent exhibit New York City Gagosian Gallery lifted without permission notice Instagram “art” finding photos of women on Instagram blowing photos up 6 ft tall prints 48×65 selling them for a hefty profit adjustment photos photograph fake Instagram comment username richardprince1234 emoji talent Instagram photos random individuals $90,000 sale sold 90 large comically comical Instagram user sued before copyright infringement photographer Patrick Cariou sued Prince stole Cariou’s photos most minor adjustments gallery displayed $10 million settling suit Federal Appeals Court in 2013 constituted fair use subtle undercurrent of pretentious nonsense rationalize Prince’s work as art Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector /
