STREET ART GONE MAINSTREAM
Posted by Sivan | Filed under Art + Design
In honor of the new art book Street Art New York, describing at length the Street Art and Graffiti culture around New York city, I have decided to write and post a short Photo-blog about the Street Art I’m shooting.
I do not know when was the first time I started to keep track of graffiti paintings in the city and when did I begin to photograph them, but if you visit my web site, you can understand the fondness I have, not to mention a slight obsession for everything that has to do with graffiti, street art, or urban art, (if I want to give it a more trendy name) and all those creative street artists that gradually become famous, well known and branded. (Banksy, Shepard Fairy, Mr. Brainwash)
Tags: banksy, graffiti, Mr. brainwash, new york, Shepard Fairey, street art
SHEPARD FAIREY: VIDEO by {FELIPE LIMA}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design
Directed by Felipe Lima
Ever since the famous Obama campaign poster we have kept a close eye on what Shepard Fairey would come up with next. Check it out.
Tags: 'Everybody's Down' by No Age, Arkitip, Inc, Shepard Fairey
ARTIST SUES A.P. OVER OBAMA IMAGE
Posted by Raoul | Filed under News + Events
By Randy Kennedy
In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.
Photography by Mannie Garcia/Associated Press Illustration by Shepard Fairey
The suit was filed in federal court in Manhattan after The Associated Press said it had determined that it owned the image, which Mr. Fairey used for posters and stickers distributed grass-roots style last year during the election campaign. The photo, showing Mr. Obama at the National Press Club in April 2006, was taken for The A.P. by a freelance photographer, Mannie Garcia.
According to the suit, A.P. officials contacted Mr. Fairey’s studio late last month demanding payment for the use of the photo and a portion of any money he makes from it.
Mr. Fairey’s lawyers, including Anthony T. Falzone, the executive director of the Fair Use Project and a law lecturer at Stanford University, contend in the suit that Mr. Fairey used the photograph only as a reference and transformed it into a “stunning, abstracted and idealized visual image that created powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message” from that of the shot Mr. Garcia took.
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Tags: Artist Sues, Associated Press, Mannie Garcia, Obama Poster, Shepard Fairey
WATCH OBAMA’S INAUGURATION ONLINE
Posted by Raoul | Filed under News + Events
Artwork by Shepard Fairey
Watch Obama’s inauguration online.
“Per the schedule, the swearing-in ceremony will start at 11:30 am ET, which will include Obama’s inaugural address. After the address, Obama “will escort outgoing President George W. Bush to a departure ceremony.” Then there’s a luncheon at the Capitol and a parade to the White House that traditionally starts around 2:30 pm.” {via Kottke}
Tags: Barack Obama, Inauguration, President, Shepard Fairey, Swearing-In Ceremony, United States of America, Watch the inauguration online
SHEPARD FAIREY {ARTIST + GUERRILLA MARKETER}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design
POLITICAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR SHEPARD FAIREY
When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.
Illustration by Shepard Fairey
All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic — aspirational, inspirational — and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
Tags: Art + Design, News + Events, Obama Hope Poster, Obama Progress Poster, Politics, Shepard Fairey
