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The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of US presidential candidate Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey. The image was widely described as iconic and came to represent Obama's 2008 presidential campaign .
Street artist, graphic designer, and activist Shepard Fairey created this visionary portrait of then Senator Barack Obama in 2008 as a form of grassroots activism to support Obama’s first presidential campaign.
Oct 15, 2017. 182. Widely considered to be a pop cultural phenomenon, this iconic portrait of Barack Obama caught the attention of millions during the historic 2008 presidential campaign. The...
The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of former US president Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey. The image was widely described as iconic and came to represent Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
To show his support for Barack Obama, Los Angeles-based graphic designer Shepard Fairey created a large-scale, red, white and blue collage of the President-elect.
Fairey’s Barack Obama “Hope” poster became the iconic campaign image for the first African American president of the United States. Early in 2008, Fairey produced his first Obama portrait, with a stenciled face, visionary upward glance, and the caption “Progress.”
It was only about a year ago, though it feels like half a lifetime, that Shepard Fairey created the most efficacious American political illustration since “Uncle Sam Wants You”: the Obama...
It's also helped to turn Barack Obama's image into an icon. It all seemed to start with an image called "HOPE," featuring the face of Sen. Obama rendered in red, white and blue.
This iconic poster was originally created without permission from Obama's campaign and set off a legal battle about the copyright of the source photograph. Fairey self-funded the poster, distributing half a million copies.
Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. This Q&A was done exclusively for the Hope to Nope: Graphics and politics 2008-18 catalogue. Emerging from ...