Rewrites 04-22-2022
In doing rewrites, I am discovering my days as a street photog with a hungry eye. I got to the city of Philadelphia a couple of days ago and really enjoyed the street again. So what was it that I enjoyed ? It was the friendly people that made me want to go out again, the humans are beautiful people and beautiful to encounter. The message from Shepard Fairey hasn’t changed, more so with the pandemic, that we have now and has generated a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)
In spite of it all, the humans are still beautiful creates, and I hope to capture more photographs with very positive experiences.
The way back machine, 2012
I took a photo of an empty billboard and made a mash-up of a piece of Shepard Fairey art work.
Shepard Fairey is arguably the most famous artist of the Arkitip alumni group, and could quite possibly be the artist most remembered of his generation. We celebrate Shepard’s methods not only because they are beautiful and effective but also because he took on the mainstream art establishment and after 20 long years, he seems to be winning.
His recent rise to popularity punctuated by his support of the Obama Presidential campaign has made Shepard Fairey a household name. His iconic portrait of Barack Obama has come to symbolize the historic campaign of the first African American to be elected President and now that image graces the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. He’s an artist who stands by what he believes in and has done more to communicate his causes to the masses than most of his contemporaries, which is admirable on any level. His campaigns have done more to shape the public consciousness than any other artist because you don’t have go to a gallery to see his work, its ubiquity is well established.
This issue will be truly historic, as we celebrate 20 Years of Shepard’s seminal ‘Obey’ campaign. Because Shepard has not been a guest of Arkitip magazine since issue edition No. 0003, this reunion collaboration has been long overdue and is a guaranteed to be another groundbreaking Arkitip classic.
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Oh yeah -that guy! All I knew was the portrait of Obama. So, I just googled his work and I like it. It reminds me of Soviet propaganda art, and that’s actually a positive thing, because the Soviet government commissioned talented artists and the imagery was, in its own way, positive.
I like the strong graphics, it makes me think about always striving for simplicity in a photgraph.