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By an odd coincidence, given that the previous post regarded official and unofficial signage on a Melbourne electricity box, Shepard Fairey yesterday pleaded guilty to three charges of graffiti in Boston, including one of putting a poster on an electrical box.Tina Kells' article 'Shepard Fairey, Obama 'Hope' Portrait Artist, Guilty of Graffiti' is at Now Public : click here
Shepard Fairey's OBEY website : click here
The photo and attributions below are by afagen
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
by Shepard Fairey (born 1970)
hand-finished collage, stencil, and acrylic on paper, 2008
Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
