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 Street Art + Graffiti Photos, Images, Pictures, Video + More: From New York City & the World
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December 19, 2007Obey Giant Sticker, NYC
Old-school Obey / Giant Has a Posse sticker by Shepard Fairey, New York City.
Photography gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera October 22, 2007Obey / Shepard Fairey: Big Brother is Watching You - 4
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera Obey / Shepard Fairey: Big Brother is Watching You - 3
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera Obey / Shepard Fairey: Big Brother is Watching You - 2
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera Obey / Shepard Fairey: Big Brother is Wating You - 1
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera September 05, 2007Shepard Fairey: Girl and Grenade "Obey" in New York #5
Ivan Corsa Photo Shepard Fairey: Girl and Grenade "Obey" in New York #4
Ivan Corsa Photo Shepard Fairey: Girl and Grenade "Obey" in New York #3
Ivan Corsa Photo Shepard Fairey: Girl and Grenade "Obey" in New York #2
Ivan Corsa Photo Girl and Grenade "Obey" in New York #1
Recent paste-up work by Shepard Fairey on Kenmare (Delancey) Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. The girl with a hand-grenade makes for a striking image. The softer illustration style is a slight departure from stronger lines we're use to seeing in much of Fairey's early "Obey" work. Ivan Corsa Photo June 08, 2007The Story of "The Splasher"
Since late autumn 2006, around the time of the final, great explosion of street art at 11 Spring St. in Nolita, in downtown New York City, we started to notice that a lot of work by some well-known street artists was suddenly being defaced with splashes of paint. Works by Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Faile and many others were attacked with bright colors of paint that appeared to have been intentionally splashed on to the work. The paint never covered the pieces completely -- the underlying art was always identifiable. The mysterious person(s) defacing the art was dubbed "The Splasher." The atttacks continued through the winter and spring months that followed. Only recently have we noticed that "The Splasher" has slowed down.
New York Magazine chronicles and investigates the mystery in
a recent article. The irony of the Splasher's attacks is that they amount to a form of vandalism upon vandalism itself. Most street art is destruction of property in the eyes of the law. The paint splashes can also, as some have pointed out, be construed as an act of art in and of itself, as a crude, shocking commentary upon the street art it targets.
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera October 02, 2005Paris: Shepard Fairey Takes Obey to the Left Bank 2
Need we say more. In the chic Parisian nabe of St. Germain de Pres, the ubiquitous Andre the Giant visage stares out from a wheat-paste poster of the Obey/Giant Has A Posse icon by designer/artist/street-marketer Shepard Fairey. Ivan Corsa Photo Paris: Shepard Fairey Takes Obey to the Left Bank 1
Need we say more. In the chic Parisian nabe of St. Germain de Pres, the ubiquitous Andre the Giant visage stares out from a wheat-paste poster of the Obey/Giant Has A Posse icon by designer/artist/street-marketer Shepard Fairey. Here the Obey wheat-paste is shown in context with some other street art below and in the upper right. Ivan Corsa Photo June 05, 2005More Shephard Fairey: "Obey" Lightpost Stencil
We found this Obey stencil by artist/publisher/seminal guerilla-marketer Shepard Fairey on a light-post base in the Lower East Side of New York City. Fairey is, of course, the person behind all those Giant Has a Posse stickers of Andre the Giant that found their way stuck to surfaces all over the world in the 1990's. We love Fairey's work (including his recent Swindle magazine) and his ever-expanding visual vocabulary of icons and imagery. Ivan Corsa Photo March 27, 2005Triple Threat - NYC Street Art Mash-up
Here we've got the work of several street artists and writers, including that of a couple of the underground's brightest stars - Shepard Fairey and Swoon. Here's the breakdown: The black-and-white motorcycle cop paste-up holding the Andre the Giant icon is the work of Shephard Fairey (of Obey / Giant Has a Posse, Swindle Magazine, etc.). The wheat-paste paper cut-out of the man on the bicycle is by Brooklyn artist Swoon. Underneath are some wheate-paste cut outs and tags of several other artists and writers. Nice to all this work serendepitously aggregated in one location in downtown Manhattan. Ivan Corsa Photo |
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