June 2012
48 posts
“I suppose, to start, that my immediate take on the situation isn’t even necessarily related to Prince’s actions. To me, this entire scenario is really indicative of the temperature of the entire modern art world these days. The problem that most people are faced with when looking at these “paintings” taken from photographs is that we are unable to really talk about them fairly because we are dismissing the fact that in the current art community, reappropriation has become its own art form. It’s a genre we don’t have a verbage for yet, one we don’t know how to discuss.
It is this lack of discussion that leads to situations such as this. If we are taking a photograph, we ask for a model release, it is common practice. However, if we are creating a piece based on reappropriation, we have no protocol for permission. Which I guess leads me to a really simple answer to the whole thing- how hard is it to say “May I, please?” —I just did an interview for Afterimage magazine regarding Richard Prince’s plagiarism of Patrick Cariou’s photographs. This is what I said. Did I sound like an idiot? Probably. (via ivynoelle)
It is this lack of discussion that leads to situations such as this. If we are taking a photograph, we ask for a model release, it is common practice. However, if we are creating a piece based on reappropriation, we have no protocol for permission. Which I guess leads me to a really simple answer to the whole thing- how hard is it to say “May I, please?” —I just did an interview for Afterimage magazine regarding Richard Prince’s plagiarism of Patrick Cariou’s photographs. This is what I said. Did I sound like an idiot? Probably. (via ivynoelle)
“Hybridize or disappear.”
—Oliver Laric
