RICHARD PRINCE / Girlfriends

Richard Prince
Girlfriends  1993
Softcover, 56 pages
17.5 x 10cm
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Condition: Very good, minor wear to cover

Girlfriends features Prince's array of rephotographed vernacular snapshots, (culled from motorcycle culture magazines and newsletters), which depict "biker chicks" (and their boyfriends) cavorting, drinking, undressing and suggestively posing on motorcycles at events like the famed Harley-Davidson rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.

From the Guggenheim Museum: "Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making -- one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility."