Artist Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster [Obama's communist-propaganda icon artist Shepard

New York Times (you may need to register at NYT to access full article) ^ | October 17, 2009 | AP

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"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," Kasi said. "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."

Kasi said the AP would continue to "vigorously pursue its countersuit alleging that Fairey willfully infringed the AP's copyright in the close-up photo of then-Sen. Obama."

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From Barack Obama's official website, a statement from Shepard Fairey:

“I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and I’m delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama.”

-Shepard Fairey

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Note: if this original link doesn't work any longer, try the second one:
http://store.barackobama.com/Artists_for_Obama_s/1018.htm

http://students.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/external_organizing
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See? It's all about "peace, love, togetherness", "Hope" and "Change".

Here are some of Fairey's other masterpieces. No joke. Most of his works are along these same lines (anti-American, pro-communist propaganda). Check the link.

Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery:
Note: on 8/5/09, I discovered that nearly all of Fairey's images were removed from this web page.
http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Artist.ArtistDetail&ArtistID=F65EBB86-3048-28EB-92D55AA4FC996E31&GalleryID=82C33C59-3048-28EB-92DB386C8C733405

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From Shepard Fairey's official website (ObeyGiant.com):

Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card. All kidding aside, I’m honored to be acknowledged by someone so important to the future of our country. Also, the Obama campaign asked me to do a poster illustration for sale on their site. It should be out next week on barackobama.com.-Shepard
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out
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Here is the 'thank you' letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:
"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely, Barack Obama.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html

Source for letter image: Fairey's own website (ObeyGiant.com):
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out

If the image of the letter should 'vanish' from Fairey's website, try this link:
http://www.notcot.com/images/obama_letter-to-shepard-fairey.jpg

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Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama artist Shepard Fairey:

Angela Davis

Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery (link given above)

Also here:
Angela Davis by Obey Giant, Shepard Fairey:
http://www.zimbio.com/Shepard+Fairey/articles/63/Angela+Davis+Obey+Giant+Shepard+Fairey

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS

* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303

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Also by Shepard Fairey, Obama's personal icon artist...

http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=171
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http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=744
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"Stalin Lenin", Shepard Fairey,
limited edition silkscreen, signed
and numbered. 18"X24" *SOLD OUT*
Source: http://www.duckywaddles.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=429

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"Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card"
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VIDEO: Obama icon artist, Shepard Fairey, discusses his numerous arrests (13!) in this May 2008 alternative media interview
(2:32 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeTXRa7_zo&feature=related
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Street artist Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama 'Hope' poster, arrested for graffiti in Boston
[...make that *14* arrests!]

NY Daily News | February 7th 2009

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/07/2009-02-07_street_artist_shepard_fairey_who_designe.html
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Also from the commie Fairey...

"Bush Hell"

Source:
http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=bush&fulltext=Search

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Barack Obama Yes We Did poster Shepard Fairey (signed)

Price: $500.00
Buy It Now: $1,499.99

Source:
http://hopeposters.com/Store/Yes-We-Did-Victory-Poster

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Also see:

Shepard Fairey, Obama Poster Artist in Legal Battle With AP, Makes Major Admissions in Case
October 16, 2009:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004023283&imw=Y

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PING.

[9YearLurker]

“Error?” Falsifying evidence for a lawsuit he filed?

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Well, that’s the New York Slimes for you, covering for their comrades.

[raybbr]

Everything about these liberals is a lie. They lie all the time. They lie to get power. They lie for profit.

[Vaquero]

[RU88]

“lies and omissions”

A perfect lead in to the Obama administration.

Shepard Fairey looks like he's been to one too many New York bath houses.

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“lies and omissions” A perfect lead in to the Obama administration.

For the record, those were the words of the 'AP vice president and general counsel Srinandan R. Kasi', not the author of the posted New York Times article. The NY Times headline described Fairey's actions as an "error".

[rlmorel]

What I find absolutely amazing is that people like this worship Mao, Guevara, Lenin, Stalin, Castro and so on.

People like him don’t understand that under tyrants like those they worship, they would be amongst the first to be lined up against a wall and shot, or hung from a lamp post.

The sad thing is, they would be surprised. As they are lined up, they would stutter “But...but...I was all for this guy...I was a loyal, card carrying supporter!”

They always think THEY will be one of the elite who are exempt, and are always surprised and confused by the turn of events. It is inconceivable to them that they were always just tools, useful idiots.

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Exactly. Hardcore communist revolutionaries have little use for wimps like Fairey and Obama once they are done serving their purpose.

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Here’s a link to an amazing 20 minute clip from Beck’s 10/15/09 show. I don’t think Beck has ever been better. This is a must-see video, folks. She (White House “Communications Director”/”Fox News is a research arm of the GOP” Anita Dunn) is actually trying to “enlighten” high school students at some religious school to the ways in which Mao overcame seemingly insurmountable odds in defeating the military in his communist revolution.

Beck Plays Explosive Video of WH Communications Director Praising Mao:
http://www.breitbart.tv/beck-plays-explosive-video-of-wh-communications-director-praising-mao/

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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=

[rlmorel]

Thanks for posting that. Nothing new here. He says there are Marxist radicals in the White House...uh huh. The most Marxist and radical of them occupies the Oval Office.

[Dajjal]

ETL: Thanks for the ping!

All: for more information on Shepard Fairey, see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obama’s Venomous Artist-Fundraiser

Excerpt:

The political messages in Fairey's art are:
1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen
2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad
3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation
4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system
5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System
6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.

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The political messages in Fairey's art are:

1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen
2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad
3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation
4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system
5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System
6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.
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From the letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:

"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely, Barack Obama."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html
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Source for letter image: Fairey's own website (ObeyGiant.com):
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out
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Should the image of the letter 'vanish' from Fairey's website, try this link:
http://www.notcot.com/images/obama_letter-to-shepard-fairey.jpg

[motherof 3]

a lie now represents Obama in the National Portrait Gallery—donated by John Podesta’s (Media Matters) brother—perfect

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Shepard Fairey’s Portrait of President-elect Barack Obama
Jan. 7, 2009

The portrait that came to symbolize the historic campaign of President-elect Barack Obama will make its permanent home only a few blocks from the White House at the National Portrait Gallery. The piece, created by Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey, came to the museum through the generosity of Washington, D.C., art collectors Heather and Tony Podesta, in honor of Tony Podesta’s mother, the late Mary K. Podesta.

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To be honest, I could care less where Shepard Fairey got the image. The important thing is that he is a known anti-American pro-communist propagandist, and that our president embraces him with open arms as his personal ‘icon’ artist.