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New York City street art: Love this Shepard Fairey wheat-paste work in the Miami. Brilliant location.


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New York City street art: Gorgeous Shepard Fairey wheat-paste work in the Miami Design District. Effing love this!


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New York City street art: Detail of star graphic element from awesome Shepard Fairey wheat-paste work in the Miami Design District.


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New York City street art: Detail of eyes from awesome Shepard Fairey wheat-paste work in Miami’s Design District.


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New York City street art: Detail from awesome Shepard Fairey wheatpaste work in Miami’s Design District.


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Street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey takes his Obama poster design to the mainstream media. The Los Angeles-based Fairey created the cover artwork for Time magazine’s Man of the Year issue, which awards U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama with the title. During the recent election, Fairey designed a series of pro-Obama street-art posters. The presence of these as wheat-paste street art in American cities amounted to a guerrilla marketing campaign for the Democratic Party candidate. The poster design incorporated Obama’s image shaded with the symbolic colors of red and blue. The word “Hope,” an important theme of the Obama campaign, ran across the top of the poster. The Time cover is a version of this design concept.


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There was an illuminating
article this past weekend in the Los Angeles Times about the
role street art is playing in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. One obvious example is the wheatpaste posters, stickers and paintings of Obama by street art pioneer Shepard Fairey (of Obey / Giant Has a Posse and Swindle Magazine fame). Fairey’s images of Obama with the word “Hope” have been appearing all over the world since the primaries campaign season earlier this year. Barack Obama personally contacted Fairey and thanked him for the street art work in support of the candidate, and Fairey is now involved in a project with the Obama “08 campaign and MoveOn.org. The L.A. Times article further connects the dots between several other artists and street art (or “graffiti art”) and politics this year, also pointing out how examples of grassroots street art has been in favor of Obama and not his opponent John McCain.

Money shot of the recent Obey “Investigator” wheatpaste street art poster in downtown New York.

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Peace-sign flower detail from Shepard Fairey (Obey) “Investigator” street art work at Bowery and Houston Street, New York City.

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Detail of head from Shepard Fairey (Obey) “Investigator” wheatpaste street art at The Bowery and Houston Street in NYC.

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Shepard Fairey (Obey) “Investigator” wheatpaste street art at the southwest corner of The Bowery and Houston Street in lower Manhattan, NYC. Around the corner is “17″ tag.

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New Obey wheatpost by Shepard Fairey on Broome Street, between The Bowery and Elizabeth Street, downtown New York City.


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Closer look at new Shepard Fairey Obey wheatpost on Broome Street, downtown New York City.


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Detail of the new Obey wheatpost on Broome Street, NYC.


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Obey on Broome Street, NYC.


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Old-school Obey / Giant Has a Posse sticker by Shepard Fairey, New York City.


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Photography gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
Music on our iPod: Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
Sneakers of the Day: Adidas “Marun”

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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Keane – “Nothing in the Way”
Kicks on our feet: Nike High-Tops

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Keane – “Nothing in the Way”
Kicks on our feet: Nike High-Tops

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Keane – “Nothing in the Way”
Kicks on our feet: Nike High-Tops

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Keane – “Nothing in the Way”
Kicks on our feet: Nike High-Tops