Emrata vs. Richard Prince

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to tell what killed photography… whether it was the advent of the camera phone, the “pocket gallery” that is social media, or the thousands of men taking softcore images of hot women in lingerie and calling it art. These horsemen of the photography apocalypse were all put to trial when Emily Ratajkowski went up against acclaimed artist and professional troll, Richard Prince, after he featured one of her Instagram photos in an art exhibition in New York. An image she went on to purchase for $80,000. While Prince’s “Instagram Paintings” series seems at best lazy and at worst sleazy, it raises fascinating questions about the state of photography as an art form. Photography has always had problems with authorship, but social media has thrown that into crisis. Once a photograph reaches the internet, is it yours any longer? Is it even a photograph at all? Hannah and Maia are joined by photographer and friend Stefan Johnson to discuss all this and more in this episode, embarking on tangents such as: what comprises a “Brat summer”, and Maia being too optimistic about Love Island UK.

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SOURCES:

Walter Benjamin, “'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” (1935).

Liz Linden, “Reframing Pictures: Reading the Art of Appropriation” Art Journal, vol. 75, No. 4 (2016).

W. J. T. Mitchell, “The Pictorial Turn” Artforum (1992).

Sabine Niederer, “Networked Images: Visual methodologies for the digital age”, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2018).

Lizzie Plaugic, “The story of Richard Prince and his $100,000 Instagram art” The Verge (2015).

Emily Ratajkowski, “Buying Myself Back: When does a model own her own image?” Vulture (2020).

David Robbins, “Richard Prince: An Interview by David Robbins” Aperture , FALL 1985, No. 100, The Edge of Illusion (FALL 1985).

Peter Schjeldahl, “Richard Prince’s Instagrams” The New Yorker (2014).

Giulia Turbiglio, “A Brief History of Richard Prince’s Instagram” Artuner.

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0:00.0	this new season of Love Island is so friggin good. I only saw one episode, but I'm taking
0:06.8	you a word for it. I'm going to invest some time into it. I'm going to do it. Nice. Yeah,
0:13.2	listen up. I've broken down what exactly is good about it. And all I've got to say is last season,
0:18.4	it was All-Star's season. So it was like all these people who
0:20.8	already knew each other, a bunch of them had already dated, they're way too versed in how to be
0:25.0	influencers. And so it was like the most boring, tame season I've ever seen, apart from like a couple
0:32.0	unhinged people. But this season, it's like the people are kind of, for lack of better words, a little bit trashy.
0:39.2	I don't know if the psych evaluations worked on them or if they skipped rights through it because
0:43.2	they are emotionally volatile. They are duplicitous. Maybe they change the psych evaluations for the
0:49.4	worst. Maybe. I've talked a lot about how gender segregated it used to be, where like it started
0:54.4	becoming where like all the girls would sit on one side of the place and all the boys would sit on the other and they do all these ritualistic things, like the boys would make them coffee or like they have this thing called the hideaway where people can go and like have alone time, quote unquote, which used to be used for people to just like have sex at any time of day. but instead became this thing where like you have to earn the hideaway. And then it became this like ritualistic thing where they do this weird bedding ceremony and they like dress up in costumes and the girls would parade around the makeup room. It's so weird now. Yeah, they just put them in like lingerie and they're like and they don't have sex and then they're like okay time for a
1:29.0	cold on and it really is I'm like show me to me please Rachel I want to see you have sex I want to
1:33.9	see someone having sex in the hideaway and no I've been robbed of that for seasons and seasons
1:38.9	and now they've made the hideaway available 24-7 so and the most fun caveat of it is that you cannot take the person you're coupled up with into the hideaway.
1:48.7	It has to be someone you are not coupled up with.
1:50.7	So the hideaway is just a chamber of betrayal.
1:54.7	The difficult thing about talking about Love Island, especially for something that will not be released for weeks,
2:02.2	is that that show moves at such an accelerated speed.
2:04.9	Oh, true.
2:05.4	That, like, by the time this episode comes out, what we're saying could be completely irrelevant
2:10.8	or off, but it's a good start.
2:12.4	But you guys can have some amazing irony and you can laugh at me and how naive I am.
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