Artist Steals Instagram Photos & Sells Them For $100K
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Right now you can purchase someone's Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won't go to the photographer, however, it will go to "artist" Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people's Instagram photos for his series titled "New Portraits." The previously private show at the Gagosian has been a part of Frieze.
According to Petapixel, "Prince is notorious in the art world for taking other people’s work, 'appropriating' them as his own with various changes, and then selling them for large amounts of dough." And no, he did not get permission for these prints, which are screenshots of the images with one addition from Prince, "a short message [he] posted as the last comment on each one."
My sculpture class talked about these several weeks ago and no one really cared any way for them. They're just troll pieces that use misogyny and a tired formula to get a reaction. The whole point of them (beyond money) is to get the viewer to dislike the artist. And it's just a whole why (should I care)? thing.
So all those thots that put up a million ass shots on Instagram are making another dude rich while they hope to host a couple parties from dudes who hit them up in their Gmail.
