Official Shepard Thread
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- ********0
might mages right
- ********0
love his work, the guy is cool.
- ********0
- ********0
yeah, i like his style a lot. but i read that he's 'borrowed' a lot of the imagery he's famous for... but then, maybe it's good taste and judgement == good designer.
i read this http://www.art-for-a-change.com/… << is this guy correct?
- felix730
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati…
Ironic - since one of his images is hanging on the side of City Hall in Boston...
- lvl_130
your 2 favorite/hated people together at last:
http://swindlemagazine.com/issue…
- Horp0
Make art not war, then argue over who's art won... get really mad with each other about it, and go to fucking war.
- zman0
poser
- sigg0
i dig some of his stuff for sure
- CGN0
- ukit0
Shit...
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pr…
Fairey admits he sued AP under false pretenses
Striking at the heart of his fair use case against the AP, Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters. Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up his previous lies and omissions.
In his February 9, 2009 Complaint for a declaratory judgment against The AP, Fairey falsely claimed to have used an AP photograph of George Clooney sitting next to then-Senator Barack Obama as the source of the Hope and Progress posters. However, as the AP correctly alleged in its March 11, 2009 response, Fairey had instead used a close-up photograph of then-Senator Obama from the same press event, which is an exact match for Fairey's posters. In its response, the AP also correctly surmised that Fairey had attempted to hide the true identity of the source photo in order to help his case by arguing that he had to make more changes to the source photo than he actually did, i.e., that he at least had to crop it.
- ukit0
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…
Shepard Fairey admits to wrongdoing in Associated Press lawsuit
In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his "Hope" poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
"Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image," Fairey said. "The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another."
New filings to the court, he said, "state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used...and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong. In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images."
- utopian0
Enough Said...
- ukit0
You could argue a case for appropriating imagery like he did with some of the others...even though technically it may or may not be totally legal, I think culturally in the world of art/design/music there's a context where it's acceptable if you're digging up the past and presenting it in a new way.
But I don't see the point of directly copying a modern day photographer's work just for the hell of it. Especially when he could have easily montaged a couple photos and redrawn it slightly.