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Suing Richard Prince
Stung when he felt ripped off by a famous artist, a photographer turned to the courts.
This portrait — black-and-white, austere but playful, with the rock star’s arms folded — instead led to him feeling like he was ripped off by a famous artist, Richard Prince, and betrayed by Gordon herself. Around the time of the Pape r shoot, Prince, who became rich and famous appropriating other people’s images(Marlboro ads, pulp-novel covers, a skeevy nude portrait of an underaged Brooke Shields), had been introduced to Instagram by one of his school-age children. McNatt is from Austin and moved to New York via San Francisco in the ’90s, shooting for mainstream mags and music labels, a part of a queer bohemian cohort that, loosely, included the novelist Alexander Chee, the playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, the choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, and the performer Justin Vivian Bond.
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