Tester

that’s mad because I’m a poor
starving artist with six-figure student
loan debt, and you’re just a giant
that runs through Instagram pillaging,
taking things into your own
museum, and calling them yours.
Then there is the snappy response
of Selena Mooney, founder of
SuicideGirls, a model-run, highly
lucrative pin-up community.
Upon hearing
that her photo was
being sold for $90,000
dollars, Mooney started
selling it online for
just $90. However,
Mooney is in a unique
position to play this
game. Ann Collins, a
self-described “working
student in school”
who is “extremely
broke,” was also outspoken
in her frustration
at Prince’s exploitation
of her body.
“I could have used that
money for school,” she
told the website Artnet.
Artnet was quick
to point out that Anna did not actually
take her own picture. However,
Collins’ issue was the not the
use of the photograph itself, it was
the use of her body. Collins explained
to Star Entertainment that
she wanted to “send a message to
the art world to stop commodifying
women’s bodies for the sake
of art.” Collins was not interested
in the use of her photograph, she
was upset about the use of her
own body, now in the public eye
without consent or credit – a situation
which, as a poor and young
woman, she could do little to
change.
It is not a coincidence that a
struggling performance artist (like
Fader), members of a ballet troop
(like Collins), models and makeup
artists are upset with Richard
Prince. Unlike Sciortino, they use
their bodies to survive. The structure
and material fabric of which
their body is built is precious to
them. Models, dancers, sex work-
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