Recently Glen O’Brien has become the co-editor of Interview magazine. I think that is a great choice by the publisher – a kind of prodigal son returns home kind of thing. One of the great things about a son returning home is that all his friends are going to start dropping in, this month it’s Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, and Richard Hell.
Interview has RP photographing the actresses from the new Battlestar Galactica show. He has shot them in a way that directly points at some of his work – notably “Girlfriends”. You might remember the “Girlfriends” as the biker girl photographs. I call theses images “The New Girlfriends” – Hollywood starlets wearing all the right clothing labels and attitudes – but not the same sense of freedom or even sexiness. It makes perfect sense now why the “Girlfriends” are stronger (and sexier) when re-photographed. Maybe RP should have had some bikers take the photos, and then photographed those. Offhanded joke aside, I’m not sure RP needs to be re-engineering his past work – it just seems like there is so much still to do.
I bought Interview at a news stand, I hope you live near a place that sells magazines.
Photo by: Richard Prince