Collection of black and white rephotographs of the buxom princess of Drag Racing.

Auch wenn Prince sich mit vordergründig Banalem wie den Motorhauben von Autos beschäftigt, gelingt es ihm, diese in einen Schwebezustand zu überführen, der gleichermaßen dem Trivialen wie dem Auratischen verhaftet ist.

French photographer Patrick Cariou accused Richard Prince of copying 41 images of rastafarians and landscapes from his book Yes Rasta, which Richard Prince was using for a series of paintings and collages called the Canal Zone. A deposition is the out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that is reduced to writing for later use in court. In such a scenario Richard Prince had to explain and defend his art, his career, and his decades-long practice of appropriating images made by others.

This book is not a proper catalogue raisonné, but rather an invitation to browse the library of an amateur. It allows us to consider an important aspect of Richard Prince’s work,

A look into Richard Prince's private library and his influences, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist's work at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.