richard prince

DECORATING MY WALLS, 1980

Since I can’t size myself up, I might as well size someone else up. I’ve said this, but I don’t really believe it. I finally decided to put something up on one of the walls in my room. I decided to put up a picture of Steve McQueen, one of those big black-and-white personality posters. This is the second time I’ve put up a poster of Steve McQueen on a wall in a room where I’ve lived. The first poster of McQueen went up in 1964, in the bedroom of the house where I lived with my parents. I used to take a train into Harvard Square on a Saturday and go to a poster store and pick out a poster of a Hollywood celebrity. Someone or some company had just come out with these big black-and-white, 30-by-40-inch posters for a dollar. There were about 25…