• Cover panel, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Colour photograph — topless woman with arms raised, dark background, chain necklace with pendant, tattoo on chest; warm stage lighting. White sans-serif text centred lower third: 'RICHARD PRINCE' / '3RD PLACE'. Fold lines and light handling marks as issued.
  • Folded artist publication/poster, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Ed. Hans Ulrich Obrist. Offset on lightweight paper. Front face: colour photograph — rural American landscape, open green lawn, white garage structure, bare trees, blue sky; diagonal shadow across grass foreground. Light handling and original fold lines, good vintage condition.
  • Interior spread, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Three colour photographs. Left: rural American property — double garage, gravel drive, large tree, satellite dish, summer foliage. Top right: three topless women with motorcycles in pine forest, warm light. Bottom right: empty rural petrol station, blue pumps, 'Self Service Island' sign, mountains in background.
  • Interior spread, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Two black-and-white photographs side by side. Left: bearded man in cap and sunglasses with topless woman on motorcycle, laughing; outdoor setting. Right: laughing topless woman with man in motorcycle helmet and 'Harley' vest; text on vest partially legible 'LIVE TO RIDE / DIE...'. Fold lines visible as issued.
  • Folded artist publication/poster, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Reverse face: two photographs stacked. Top: colour photograph — rural roadside scene, low prefabricated building behind chain-link fence, bare trees, gravel road. Bottom: colour photograph — three topless women at an outdoor biker gathering, warm amber light, crowd in background.
  • Back panel, Richard Prince, 3rd Place, Point d'Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d'Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Colour photograph — rural American yard, gravel drive, basketball hoop on tall pole, stacked tyres, pine trees, overcast sky; small text caption at lower edge. Light handling and fold lines as issued.
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RICHARD PRINCE — 3rd Place, Point d’Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d’Ironie, Paris, 2006

RICHARD PRINCE — 3rd Place, Point d’Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d’Ironie, Paris, 2006

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Folded artist publication/poster, Richard Prince, 3rd Place. Point d’Ironie no. 39, Agnès b. / Point d’Ironie, Paris, April 2006. Editor: Hans Ulrich Obrist. Offset printed on lightweight paper; colour and black-and-white imagery throughout.

Issued as no. 39 of Point d’Ironie, 3rd Place belongs to a publication format designed for circulation rather than preservation. Folded, distributed, handled and easily discarded, the object was never intended to behave like a conventional rare book. Its survival is therefore part of its meaning.

Institutional records fix its position within the series: De Appel records it as Point d’Ironie 39: Richard Prince, Avril 2006, published by Agnès b. in Paris, with Hans Ulrich Obrist as editor; MACBA also records no. 39 as a 2006 serial publication by Richard Prince. These references matter less as citations than as placement. They confirm that a temporary printed object has entered the same systems of identification, cataloguing and retention usually reserved for more stable works.

Prince’s images of rural America, biker culture and found vernacular material are not only reproduced here; they are carried by the publication itself as a folded support. The value is not only in rarity as scarcity. It is in survival, recognition, and the fact that this copy remains in the form in which it first moved through the world.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Original folds, light handling, soft creasing and minor age wear. Ships carefully packed, flat or folded as issued; international shipping available.

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