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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Shepard Fairey Arrested During Denver DNC

Posted by Greg Hambrick on Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM

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Charleston native Shepard Fairey, receiving lots of attention for his Obama posters touting Hope and Progress, was arrested in Denver during the DNC convention, according to the Denver Westword News.

Fairey was in the process of hanging posters advertising his gallery show when police in full riot gear approached him.

In a video interview with the website www.imeem.com, Fairey says that as the group tried to exit the other end of the alley, the police drew their guns. "Get on the fucking ground or we're going to kick you in the fucking head!" Fairey quotes them as saying. The artists were thrown down, handcuffed and arrested, charged with "interference and posting unauthorized posters."

Fairey and company spent seventeen hours in jail, first at the infamous "Gitmo on the Platte" warehouse the city set up for DNC protesters; also in the house were about 100 anarchists whom police had pepper-sprayed and arrested earlier that evening.

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Frank Shepard Fairey have already proven himself in his career. He has been a contemporary artist, illustrator and graphic designer. His work became more widely known in the 2008 Presidential election when he made the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. Right now he is in the middle of a lawsuit. He used an image of Barack Obama, registered to the Associated Press, which was plastered all over the place for his art. It was the media saturation of his graffiti art, using the famous portrait of the President and the word hope – what his campaign was supposed to represent – that may have done him in. He has countered that his usage of the image is protected by Fair Use, in which images that are well known can be manipulated as art, and a form of free speech. It seems an image of the most high profile man in the world is off limits to the constitutional right to expression, the one Shepard Fairey tried to use.

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