Married stars Bell and Shepard launched a Twitter campaign last month, asking fans to help them protect their baby daughter, Lincoln, from the paparazzi by refusing to purchase magazines that
plaster images of stars» kids all over its pages.
What at first can look like mass media appropriation, as in the work
of rock
star - worshipping artist Richard Prince — who showed a nose cone
plastered with
images of the band Kiss last summer in East Hampton as well as pictures
of Sid Vicious over Jackson Pollock's photo at his show at Guild Hall — Joester's work has more in common with Montauk's Peter Beard, who takes his own photos
of endangered African wildlife and uses them as the basis for multi-media collage using mud, blood, feathers and paint.