Richard Prince
New Portraits
Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2014
72-page exhibition booklet / catalogue
Edition of 500
6 × 8 inches
Staple-bound booklet, offset printed
£295 — shipping included
Original booklet issued for Richard Prince’s New Portraits, the 2014 exhibition of Instagram-sourced images enlarged as inkjet-on-canvas works with Prince’s added comments.
The booklet repeats the structure of the feed: handle, image, likes, caption, comment. A social image is moved into the gallery, then returned to paper as catalogue. The object records this transfer without resolving it.
The series remains tied to questions of authorship, permission, display, celebrity, and legal afterlife. Donald Graham’s Rastafarian Smoking a Joint, reproduced through the New Portraits project, later became part of the litigation around Prince’s use of Instagram-sourced imagery.
Condition: very good, with a noticeable bump/crease to the top right corner, visible on the cover and some pages. Light handling wear consistent with storage.
Image, caption, comment, claim.
The feed becomes exhibition.
The exhibition becomes paper.
