New Portraits: Richard Prince
Richard Prince
New Portraits
Blum & Poe, 2016
Screw-bound acrylic hardcover, 64 pp
26 x 33 cm
Edition of 1,000
ISBN: 9780986112843
Published on the occasion of Richard Prince’s New Portraits exhibition at Blum & Poe Tokyo (April 3 – May 30, 2015), this sculptural catalog documents one of Prince’s most controversial and widely discussed series.
Bound between thick acrylic covers with industrial screw-posts, the book doubles as both archive and object. Inside: full-color reproductions of the Instagram portraits that sparked international debates around authorship, appropriation, and image culture in the digital age. Prince’s chosen screenshots—each rephotographed and enlarged—blur the line between documentation and transformation.
Produced in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, New Portraits captures a pivotal moment in the evolution of contemporary portraiture, where the feed becomes the frame and the artist becomes the algorithm.