Ariella Green Week 22: Andy Warhol and his Prince Photographs

                     Ariella Green Week 22: Andy Warhol and his Prince Photographs

Andy Warhol is remembered as one of the leading figures in the pop art world. His portrait of Marylin Monroe or painting of Campbell's soup can is distinguishable world round. Andy Warhol passed away in 1987, and he is still the topic of news in the papers.


In 1981, photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who specialized in portraits of musicians, took photographs of Prince. Three years later, Andy Warhol used her photographs to create a series that consisted of sixteen pieces. Vanity Fair heard of Warhol’s series and paid him to create an illustration for the magazine. 


Warhol used Goldsmith’s images from 1981 and Vanity fair paid her four hundred dollars to use her work as a reference image while giving her credit for her work in the printed magazine. 


When Prince died in 2016, Vanity fair printed one of Warhol’s designs of Prince as a tribute to him. However, this time, Goldsmith was not given any credit for the work that she had done in 1981. Goldsmith contacted the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWF) for using her work. AWF sued her and she countersued them. Goldsmith feels that she deserves to be credited and compensated for her work. In October of 2022, the Supreme Court is set to review this copyright case to determine whether Warhol violated copyright laws by using Goldsmith’s image as a reference. The case is delayed to that date because that is when the court will begin its new term. 


Question: How important do you think this Supreme Court case is? What are your thoughts about copyright law? Who do you think is in the right Goldsmith or AWF?

Andy Warhol's 'Prince Series' Is Fair Use, Court Rules - The New York TimesPrince, 1981 | Lynn Goldsmith

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