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RICHARD PRINCE: The Entertainers 1982–1983, Fulton Ryder, New York, 2023
RICHARD PRINCE: The Entertainers 1982–1983, Fulton Ryder, New York, 2023
- Artist
- Richard Prince
- Publisher
- Fulton Ryder
- Place & year
- New York, 2023
- Type
- Artist Book
- Format
- Illustrated clothbound hardcover with inset photographic panels, 152 pp.
- Size
- 25 × 33 cm
- Condition
- Unopened in original publisher’s shrinkwrap; the plastic shows light rubbing, surface marking and pressure creasing around the corners and edges; original red publisher’s information sticker attached over the wrapping; book appears well preserved beneath but has not been opened for inspection.
- Provenance
- From a collection of artist publications retained in their original shrinkwrapped packaging
- Register
- TNR-2026-0464 · 28 July 2026
- Copy
- Sealed in original publisher’s shrinkwrap
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Notes
Illustrated clothbound hardcover with inset photographic panels, Fulton Ryder, New York, 2023. English text. Original publisher’s information sticker. ISBN 979-8-985236-82-8. Publisher’s edition now listed as sold out.
The Entertainers was made during Prince’s early Time-Life period and developed from publicity photographs of aspiring singers, actors and models encountered around the cinemas, bars and restaurants of Times Square. Prince softened their focus, increased contrast and introduced saturated colour and graphic elements, returning images designed to secure attention and employment as studies of aspiration, performance and manufactured identity.
The book reproduces the photographic panels alongside related works, advertisements and taped trade clippings. It also includes Prince’s texts The Counterfeit Memory from 1981 and The Lone Ranger, extending the series through memories of adult cinemas, bars, celebrity, childhood heroes and death.
The series is currently included in Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, curated by Nancy Spector at Fondazione Prada’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, 9 May–23 November 2026. There, The Entertainers is placed alongside Jafa’s Viriconium and considered through surrogate portraiture, self-presentation and the construction of identity through found cultural material.
Still sealed, this copy remains in the state in which it first entered circulation. The publication reproduces images already displaced from publicity material into art; the shrinkwrap introduces another interval, preserving that transfer while withholding the book from ordinary use.
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