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Yee Haw! Marlboro Time...
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Authentic American cultural art and inconography! Probably the biggest on-going sale of the myth (or real thing) of the American West that has EVER HAPPENED. imo. Best branding, best advertising campaign EVER.
See MotherPie's The Marlboro Man... where I was the flowergirl ONCE UPON A TIME.... Long Ago.
This is the basis for one of Richard Prince's iconic art pieces, a good example of Marlboro Man appropriations.
the earlier appropriation work of Prince on Brook Shields sparked lots of controversy when Prince first appropriated it. iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/brooke-shields-by-g...
Then only two years ago Prince's Brook Shield's work was taken down from London's Tate Modern exhibit. www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2009/10/br...
I think this piece below from 2007's record breaking work provides more information about Prince.
PRINCE'S WORK PULLING IN AUCTION RECORDS:
Prince's works fetch millions. For example, this Prince photograph, one of two, called "Untitled Cowboy" 2001-2002 piece brought .2 million at auction at Sotheby's in 2007. here is the link: www.brianappelart.com/art_writing_richard_prince_stealing...
You can look Prince up in Wickipedia. Here's a brief exerpt:
Prince's series known as the Cowboys, produced from 1980 to 1992, and ongoing, is his most famous group of rephotographs. Taken from Marlboro cigarette advertisements of the Marlboro Man, they represent an idealized figure of American masculinity. The Marlboro Man was the iconic equivalent of later brands like Ralph Lauren, which used the polo pony image to identify and associate its brand. "Every week. I'd see one and be like, Oh that's mine, Thank you," Prince stated in an interview.[10]
Prince's Cowboys displayed men in boots and ten-gallon hats, with horses, lassos, spurs and all the fixings that make up the stereotypical image of a cowboy. They were set in the Western U.S., in arid landscapes with stone outcrops flanked by cacti and tumbleweeds, with backdrops of sunsets. The advertisements were staged with the utmost attention to detail.
It has been suggested that his works raise the question of what is real, what is a real cowboy, and what makes it so. Prince's photographs of these advertisements attempt to prompt one to decide how real are media images.
The subjects of Prince's rephotographs are the photos of others. He is photographing the works of other photographers, who in the case of the cowboys, had been hired by Marlboro to create images depicting cowboys. Prince described his process in a 2003 interview by Steve Lafreiniere in Artforum. "I had limited technical skills regarding the camera. Actually I had no skills. I played the camera. I used a cheap commercial lab to blow up the pictures. I made editions of two. I never went into a darkroom."[11]
Unique decoration - Buddha head
Image by London Hotels Insight
The May Fair has a unique mix of Asia-inspired styles in its decor - it felt very hip and zen throughout.
