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Richard Prince's Instagram Screenhot Art Analysis
Considering Instagram's terms of use, it seems that what Richard Prince did with the use of his Instagram screenshot art was completely legal, seeing as how every single person that uses the application allows others to use their imagery with no legal recourse. (Does anyone besides Prince actually read that stuff anyway?) But from an artistic standpoint, what Richard did, and what he has done in the past with other peoples' work is completely disrespectful and immoral. It's almost as if he is doing it just to get a reaction and piss people off. And it worked. I completely agree with the guy from 'The Art of Photography' who talked about Prince in the video “Richard Prince Smells Bad” in that he did this just to stir the pot and get people riled up to give his show more attention, which is exactly what happened. The more publicity it got, the more people came out to …show more content…
Many of the pieces in his show were taken from the Suicide Girls' Instagram, and because they had no legal recourse, they decided to get back in their own way. They took the exact same pieces, printed them on the exact same type of paper, at the same size, and sold them for 1/1000 the price. They knew that most people could not afford to pay what Prince was asking for his prints, so they made them much more affordable and accessible to the general public. When asked if they had permission to do this, the founder of Suicide Girls, Missy Suicide, claimed that she had the same permission that Prince had. I tried to research the outcome of this genius idea, but did not find out exactly how many they sold. Because I support SG, I hope they sold a lot, and I hope it pissed Prince off to no end. The article is still online, with links to the prints for sale, but the prints have since been taken down from their shop. You can read the article here. (Links to an external
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