Starting in 1977, Prince photographed four photographs which previously appeared in the "New York Times". This process of rephotographing continued into 1983, when his work "Spiritual America" featured Garry Gross's photo of Brooke Shields at the age of ten, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same name. His "Jokes" series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of white, middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.