Girlfriend, from the series Cowboys and Girlfriends
Richard Prince, Girlfriend, from the series Cowboys and Girlfriends, 1992, chromogenic print, Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier, © artist or other rights holder, 2009.11
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- Title
Girlfriend, from the series Cowboys and Girlfriends
- Related Titles
original language: Girlfriend
series (original language): Cowboys and Girlfriends
- Artist
- Date
1992
- Medium
chromogenic print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
24 in x 20 in
- Collection Area
Photography; Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier
- Accession Number
2009.11
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Since the 1980s, provocative contemporary artist Richard Prince has challenged concepts of authorship by rephotographing mass-media images created by others. He manipulates and then claims these new works as his own, resituating them in the space of the art gallery and the museum. For his Cowboys and Girlfriends series, Prince selected and cropped photographs from the famous Marlboro Man cigarette ads, as well as pictures culled from biker magazines of women posing provocatively on motorcycles. The series suggests that the ubiquity of such imagery reinforces gender and social stereotypes. In 2011, adding to the long-standing debate over mass-produced images, originality, and authorship, a federal court found Prince guilty of copyright infringement for his appropriation of more than forty photographs from Patrick Cariou’s series Yes Rasta.
- Exhibitions
2012 Emerging: New Photography Acquisitions Portland Art Museum
