RICHARD PRINCE (b. 1949) SPIRITUAL AMERICA (T

A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NEW YORK

Exhibited
BASEL, Museum für Gegenwartkunst, RICHARD PRINCE: PHOTOGRAPHS, December 8-February 24, 2002, p. 167 (another example exhibited illustrated)

Literature
V. Todoli, J.G. Ballard and IVAM, RICHARD PRINCE: SPIRITUAL AMERICA, VALENCIA, 1989, p. 53 (illustrated)
B. Ruf, ed., RICHARD PRINCE: PHOTOGRAPHS, OSTFILDERN-RUIT, 2002, p. 167 (illustrated)

…I REMEMBER I WANTED TO MAKE SOMETHING SEAMLESS, NO TELLTALE SIGNS ABOUT HOW IT WAS PUT TOGETHER…NO CUT-UP PAPER, NO PASTING, NO PENCIL. I WANTED IT TO LOOK AS IF IT HAD BEEN SENT AWAY FOR.
Richard Prince quoted in R. Brooks, J. Rian and L. Sante, LONDON, 2003, p. 11

THE 'GANGS' WERE A PHOTO-LAB THING. THERE WAS A TERM USED AT THE LAB ABOUT 'GANGING' PICTURES TOGETHER ON ONE NEGATIVE, PUTTING NINE OR TWELVE 35 MM NEGATIVES ONTO ONE BIG 8 X 10 IN. NEGATIVE. THE SLIDES COULD HAVE BEEN OF ANYTHING. TAKEN FROM ANYTHING. FROM SURFING MAGS, MOTORCYCLE MAGS, PORN MAGS, PET MAGS, JOKE OR TREASURE HUNTING MAGAZINES. I REALIZED THAT I COULD HAVE A WHOLE SHOW ON ONE PIECE OF PAPER, INSTEAD OF NINE OR TWELVE PICTURES IN A ROOM, ON DIFFERENT WALLS.
ibid., p. 16