xoxo Missy Check out Missy's AMA happening right now! Ī post shared by SuicideGirls 💋 on at 1:10pm PDTįOX411: Some are saying Prince did this to test copyright laws. We will be donating the profits from sales to EFF.org. ) Urban art publisher Eyes On Walls () is supporting the project by fulfilling the large canvas reproductions at cost. Beautiful Art, 99.9% off the original price. So we at SuicideGirls are going to sell the exact same prints people payed $90,000 for $90 each. ) I’m just bummed that his art is out of reach for people like me and the people portrayed in the art he is selling. Prince’s permission to sell these prints? We have the same permission from him that he had from us.
I was once really annoyed by Forever 21 selling shirts with our slightly altered images on them, but an Artist? Richard Prince is an artist and he found the images our girls and we publish on Instagram as representative of something worth commenting on, part of the zeitgeist, I guess? Thanks Richard! Do we have Mr. As to the copyright issue? If I had a nickel for every time someone used our images without our permission in a commercial endeavor I’d be able to spend $90,000 on art. Maybe I know a few people who can spend it on a car.
My first thought was I don’t know anyone who can spend $90,000 on anything other than a house.
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And he had taken a number of images from a number of SuicideGirls, not just the official SuicideGirls image, so we contacted them as well to see if they wanted to make their images available for $90 as well.Įveryone has been asking me what I thought about famous controversial artist Richard Prince taking a series of SuicideGirls Instagram posts and printing them out and selling them at a recent gallery show at the Gagosian Gallery of Beverly Hills for $90,000 a piece. Suicide: My response to him taking our image was to put up the image and sell if for $90, the exact same print. So, I quickly learned that he sold one of my images for $90,000.įOX411: You took him to task on Instagram. We were like, “What is going on? What is this?” I never heard of Richard Prince before. Missy Suicide: The Tuesday after Memorial Day we started to get all these people sending us articles from the Washington Post to the Guardian and the New York Times that all featured our image in the artwork for the article. Group founder Missy Suicide joined us in our FOX411 LA studio - even though she was fighting a nasty cold - to talk about intellectual property rights in the digital age.įOX411: When did you learn Richard Prince used your photos? What was your reaction? Artist Richard Prince AP Prince reportedly sold at least one repurposed SuicideGirls Instagram photo for $90,000, without ever asking permission. Some of his subjects were photos from the tattooed pin-up collective SuicideGirls’ Instagram account. Artist Richard Prince took photos off of people’s personal Instagram accounts and turned them into what he has called art.
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