In the 1970s Richard Prince worked for Time Inc., clipping magazine articles for the writers’ archive. Enthralled with the advertisements for luxury goods such as watches, liquor, purses, and cigarettes, he began to rephotograph them with his own camera, distancing them from their original purposes and recasting them as “high art.” Prince’s pioneering use of appropriated images has made him the artist most associated with the Pictures Generation, a group of American artists interested in originality, authorship, and the construction of images.