Intent on questioning notions of authorship and originality, he rephotographed an existing image that had already inspired two years of legal debate. Prince, Schorr tells me, has never met Shields. It tells you everything about what we fear and desire.” “I found it really disturbing, but my impression always was that Richard made the piece because it was disturbing. “I always thought that it was a perverse picture,” says Schorr, who has since made a documentary about Prince, and befriended Shields when she photographed the actor/model last year for Interview magazine.
When artist Collier Schorr sublet Prince’s studio in the 1980s, the photograph was hanging in the hallway.
