Richard Prince

Richard Prince is, to me, a brilliant provocateur who built a career on a deliberately uncomfortable question: who really owns an image? By rephotographing ads and appropriating others' pictures, he upended the art world and invited the lawsuits that have shadowed him ever since. I don't think the controversy is a flaw in his work; it's the work. He drags into the open the truth about a culture saturated with copies and reproduction. Love him or loathe him, he is impossible to dismiss.

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Name (English)

Richard Prince

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・プリンス

Reading

りちゃーど・ぷりんす

Born

August 6, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Panama Canal Zone, United States

Occupation

photographer / painter / illustrator / sculptor / collagist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

• Official sitehttps://www.richardprince.com
• Xhttps://x.com/RichardPrince4
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Prince
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q661520

Tags

• photographer
• painter
• illustrator

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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