{"id":458,"date":"2007-12-07T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/12\/07\/randy-kennedyon-richard-prince-jim-krantz\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:47:32","slug":"randy-kennedyon-richard-prince-jim-krantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/12\/07\/randy-kennedyon-richard-prince-jim-krantz\/","title":{"rendered":"~RANDY KENNEDY\/on RICHARD PRINCE & JIM KRANTZ\/RIP OFF !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jim
\nJIM KRANTZ’S PHOTOGRAPH, ‘Stretchin’ Out’ (1997) – taken for a MARLBORO AD\/
\nPHOTO COURTESY: THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

here’s the RANDY KENNEDY ARTICLE – WHICH SAYS IT ALL – PUBLISHED in the NEW YORK TIMES\/
\nTHURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 2007 !!<\/p>\n

read it !!: ‘If The Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s The Original?’<\/a><\/p>\n

and don’t miss the slide show: more pix, here !!<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jim
\nfrom the NEW TIMES SLIDE SHOW – the banner that lines the streets uptown with a unattributed JIM KRANTZ PHOTO IMAGE – PROUDLY PROCLAIMING – the RICHARD PRINCE RETROSPECTIVE at THe GUGGENHEIM – PHOTO BY MARILYNN K. YEE\/THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/p>\n

this is the same image that is the poster for the show – doing brisk business at $9.95 a pop.<\/p>\n

looks like they did change a few pixels on this image – they deleted the ciggie !
\nyou’d have to laugh if it wasn’t, so sad.<\/p>\n

Image how Mr. Kranz felt encountering that banner floating in the air so grandly. One can pretty much conclude he wasn’t too happy – the article states that he didn’t – “investigate much further to see if any other photos hanging in the museum might be his own, but said of his visit that day, ‘When I left, I didn’t know if I should be proud, or if I looked like an idiot’.” <\/p>\n

guess what, yo, you do<\/em> look an idiot to have let this go down, and for so long – and, why are you so defensive in the article – the beauty of the photos isn’t in their so-called ‘conceptual content’ – as rephrased (?) by RICHARD PRINCE – it’s in the beauty of YOUR VISION.
\n !!
\nat the very least, RICHARD PRINCE, & THE GUGGENHEIM – should give him a photo credit.
\nthat’s an unbelievable ommission. JIM KRANTZ is 100% right on – to want people to know who took the photo(s) and to be recognized more widely. Apparently he’s not even an “asterik” in the catalog. <\/p>\n

and it isn’t as if a series of in-house photographers took these photos – it seems pretty much – all these companies turned to JIM KRANTZ for his ability to produce these “iconic” American images & he doesn’t even get an asteriked photo credit – he should get a book. what’s up here.<\/p>\n

the only thing RICHARD PRINCE got right is the brutal street smarts in American culture and business – he who gets over first – wins. <\/p>\n

and, you got love RICHARD PRINCE’S 1992 statement regarding his quote unquote “rustling” of the MARLBORO aesthetic – and MR KRANTZ’S WORK – “No one was looking. This was a famous
\ncampaign. If you’re going to steal something, you know, you go to the bank.” <\/p>\n

we’ll give HOLLAND COTTER – also of the NEW YORK TIMES – the last word – with the neat way he ended his review (posted today, FRIDAY DEC 7, 2007) on the PAUL McCARTHY CHOCOLATE FACTORY at MACCARONE – “but that’s great art for you: It may give you a sugar high, but it has dirty little secrets” !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JIM KRANTZ’S PHOTOGRAPH, ‘Stretchin’ Out’ (1997) – taken for a MARLBORO AD\/ PHOTO COURTESY: THE NEW YORK TIMES here’s the RANDY KENNEDY ARTICLE – WHICH SAYS IT ALL – PUBLISHED in the NEW YORK TIMES\/ THURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 2007 !! read it !!: ‘If The Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s The Original?’ and don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}