Employing the subversive sense of humor that has made him one of today's most in-demand art stars, Richard Prince had his way with a stack of paparazzi photos, creating nine unique covers for this month's issue. "It's sort of like making art with a cocktail umbrella," he says wryly. This is not the first time Prince, who is the subject of a retrospective now on view at the Guggenheim Museum, has used appropriated images in his art. Some of his most iconic works are called "rephotographs" of mass-media imagery, such as cowboys from cigarette ads, as well as "signed" publicity shots of movie stars. "I called Katie Holmes and she said something like, 'I was blinded by science,' so that's what I inscribed on her photograph," Prince says of one of the images in his W portfolio, before admitting, "I just sort of made that up."
It's funny how both i-D and W called their November issue the same.Anyway, I really don't like the concept behind it, I don't see how it is related to art and I'm so saturated by the hollywood scene.
There are so many ways to create and direct art, this is definitely not one. Does anyone remember the cover of the last year's art issue? It's definitely stuck in my memory!
i always love w's art issues and i do love the idea behind this but i just don't like the end result. it would of been more "artsy" if they used those awful paparazzi shots of celebs eating lunch outside or running away from the camera and then got their autographs over top.
I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats with scarves of red tied ’round their throats to keep their little heads from fallin’ in the snow and I turned ’round and there you go and, Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime..
I don't see how this is art. Just because there is no strict definition for what is art doesn't mean people can make anything "art". These are just paparazzi photos...
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