• Richard Prince, Early Photographs 1977–1979, front cover. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001. Grey hardcover boards with title 'Richard Prince / Early Photographs / 1977–1979' in pale blue-grey serif type, upper left. No image. Restrained, object-like design.
  • Richard Prince, Early Photographs 1977–1979, interior page. Untitled (couple), 1977. Ektacolor print, 20 × 24 inches, 50.8 × 61 cm, edition of 10. Colour photograph of a man and woman in formal dress, rephotographed from a film still or television source. The man wears a dark suit and tie; the woman wears a black dress with a red flower. Both face slightly left, expressions neutral. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001.
  • Richard Prince, Early Photographs 1977–1979, interior page. Untitled (jewelry), 1977–78. Ektacolor print, 20 × 24 inches, 50.8 × 61 cm, edition of 10. Colour photograph of three ornate gold pendant earrings or charms, rephotographed from a jewellery advertisement, arranged among dark autumn leaves. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001.
  • Richard Prince, Early Photographs 1977–1979, interior spread. Left: Untitled (cigarettes), 1977–78. Ektacolor print, 10 × 14 inches, 60.8 × 61 cm, edition of 25. Two colour photographs of single cigarettes against dark backgrounds: left image shows a cigarette beside a 'LB King Size' packet; right image shows a cigarette resting on a 'Silk Cut' packet. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001.
  • Richard Prince, Early Photographs 1977–1979, back cover. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001. Plain grey hardcover boards, no text or image. Light shelf wear and faint surface rubbing visible to boards.
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Richard Prince — Early Photographs 1977–1979

Richard Prince — Early Photographs 1977–1979

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Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001
Hardcover
46–47 pp.
20.3 × 30.5 cm
Colour offset printing
Text in English
Includes writing by Richard Prince taken from Why I Go to the Movies Alone

Condition: Very good. Light shelf wear to grey boards, faint surface rubbing and minor corner/edge wear. Interior clean, with strong colour plates.

Published by Skarstedt Fine Art on the occasion of Richard Prince’s 2001 exhibition Photographs 1977–1979. The exhibition gathered the early re-photographic works that established Prince’s long engagement with authorship, originality, advertising, and the borrowed image.

The book is restrained and object-like: grey hardcover boards, pale blue title typography, wide white margins, and captioned colour plates. Cigarettes, jewellery, couples, interiors, and commercial surfaces appear as already-circulated images, removed from their first use and placed back into view. The publication keeps that operation quiet. Advertisement becomes photograph. Photograph becomes inventory. Inventory becomes book.

A compact record from the early-2000s consolidation of Prince’s late-1970s photographic language. Published in limited quantity by Skarstedt Fine Art.

Original period publication.
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