By Olivia Zinzi
On January 25, 2024, Judge Sidney H. Stein in the Southern District of New York issued a final judgment in Graham v. Prince and McNatt v. Prince, resolving a yearslong legal debate.[1] In 2015 and 2016, two photographers brought copyright lawsuits against American artist Richard Prince and co-defendants Laurence Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery and Blum & Poe Gallery, accusing the artist and galleries of using their images without explicit permission or license in Prince’s “New Portraits” series.[2]
“New Portraits” debuted at Gagosian in 2014 and Blum & Poe in 2015, and the exhibit involved printed photographs juxtaposed on an Instagram-style backdrop placed onto large canvases with comments and captions beneath the photos.[3] The Prince judgment settled a longstanding dispute and could have ramifications for artists’ use of each other’s work.
Who is Richard Prince and why is that important?
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