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Post by meatbag on Sept 18, 2009 21:29:32 GMT -8
stick with the originals.
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Post by steveinca on Sept 19, 2009 10:58:12 GMT -8
MJ pieces are up. anyone biting? seems like the 20% discount is working for first timers at upperdeck. nah...i don't like the images and i think they're a bit overpriced. Not sure how these will do on the secondary market. |
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 14, 2009 17:00:30 GMT -8
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Post by oldfartatplay on Oct 17, 2009 5:24:29 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 17, 2009 8:03:51 GMT -8
Not a huge fan but still felt disappointed and a little in shock. I wonder what the repercussions will be?
"In an effort to keep everyone up to date on my legal battle to uphold the principle of fair use in copyright laws, I wanted to notify you of a recent development in my case against The Associated Press (AP).
On October 9, 2009, my lawyers sent a letter to the AP and to the photographer Mannie Garcia, through their lawyers, notifying them that I intend to amend my court pleadings. Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image. The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another.
The new filings state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used as a reference and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong.
In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images. I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment and I take full responsibility for my actions which were mine alone. I am taking every step to correct the information and I regret I did not come forward sooner.
I am very sorry to have hurt and disappointed colleagues, friends, and family who have supported me in this difficult case and trying time in my life.
I am also sorry because my actions may distract from what should be the real focus of my case – the right to fair use so that all artists can create freely. Regardless of which of the two images was used, the fair use issue should be the same."
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Post by jediak on Oct 17, 2009 8:27:05 GMT -8
This caught my attention as well. I think it’s a shame. Shepard Fairey is not my favorite artist ever but he doesn’t have to be, favorite implies number one and only one. I think his influence is important and his model has been somewhat inspirational for like minded people especially in the last decade or so. I think I am torn because I never thought what he did was unreasonable or wrong in regards to the type of art he produces and his process but I think this new information is a problem because it is not a matter of opinion, it’s a little more black and white, he lied. I think he has had a stellar year + so with the good you have to take the bad and this falls under that category. There will be back lash and bad press not only weakens his body of work from a collectors standpoint but it cheapens the type of art that we all seem to appreciate here. It has taken a long time for this type of art to get some legs of it’s own and to be taken more seriously on a main stream level. I think we all like to think that our decisions and tastes are good ones and with that there is a sense of accomplishment that one has, I think this is especially true of the arts. When you discover something before others and it becomes big you feel connected to it, people have a way of riding the coat tails of the one who is actually experiencing success in effect you feel you have succeeded with them by supporting them and championing their work so with that you also feel the bad when it happens, there is an emotional connection. I think we take those who we respect and hold them to high standards so we some times forget that these people are human and make mistakes, bad choices and lie just like any one else does. It’s good he came clean and I think in the big scope of things this is not very important to someone like myself who is a fan first, collector second and artist third but in a similar fashion to the Sam Flores incident I realize it is different for everyone and for some people it effects their career and lively hood and that is indeed wrong. That’s my two cents.
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 4, 2009 23:36:40 GMT -8
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 22, 2009 19:45:21 GMT -8
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 30, 2009 12:48:49 GMT -8
Just came across this. Sorry if it's posted elsewhere. Kenwood Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2004  |
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 7, 2009 17:38:54 GMT -8
He's doing the artwork for this year's GRAMMYs. I heard there will be another GRAMMY art show as well...  |
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 8, 2009 22:22:25 GMT -8
Shepard speaks about his coverup. nymag.com/news/intelligencer/62512/"But he got very famous for his Obama Hope poster, which ended up in the National Portrait Gallery and also in court, where the Associated Press is suing him for copyright infringement over the source photo he used. Then Fairey dug himself in even deeper, first saying the photo the AP said he used wasn’t the right one and then destroying evidence to try to hide the fact that it was. “There were two images from the same photo shoot, and I thought that one was a crop of the other,” Fairey explains. “When I realized I made a mistake I tried to cover it up.” Why? “It was embarrassment more than anything. But I should never have tried to cover it up, and I regret that more than anything in my life.” Nonetheless, he thinks Hope “passed the test of fair use on every criteria.” Fairey has been arrested fifteen times, and seems to be struggling with his defiance and his career-mindedness. “Since the lawsuit started, I’ve been very careful” about appropriation, he says. “I collaborate with photographers, or licensed photographs, or shoot my own photographs and use friends and family as models.” |
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Post by gildoinc on Dec 9, 2009 11:50:17 GMT -8
Artinfo just came out with their 2009 Power List and placed Shep on their power outage (shit list) along with Brandeis University, Annie Liebovitz, Ezra Merkin and Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.
"Shepard Fairey
The street artist, arrested on old warrants for tagging on the opening night of his big show at ICA Boston, was winning the fair-use lawsuit over his famous Obama Hope poster — until it turned out he’d fibbed to his lawyers about which shot by AP photographer Mannie Garcia had served as his source."
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Post by juggernut3 on Dec 9, 2009 13:10:57 GMT -8
Guess the Artinfo writer was cramming to meet his editor's deadline and just scanned headlines for assumptions. I heard a bunch of people say the same thing about Shepard after the Obama Campaign.
"Yup... Shepard was nothing before Obama and now his 15 mins are burned up and he'll be another has been after Obama..."
Then he had his retrospective and got picked up by Jeffery Deitch.
The AP scandal (as weird as it is) is just another chapter in his biography. He still has his retrospective moving to Cincinnati and his solo in NYC this spring. If Artinfo calls that a power outage then I would like to see what type of pub you would have to generate to get on their good list.
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Post by richardtharbaugh on Dec 9, 2009 13:32:18 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 5, 2010 11:49:44 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 15, 2010 15:52:47 GMT -8
Shepard's show should be the last show at Deitch Projects before the gallery closes or at least before Deitch ceases to be associated anymore.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 27, 2010 19:18:26 GMT -8
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Post by gildoinc on Feb 12, 2010 9:03:18 GMT -8
Anyone watch Stephen Colbert last nigh? At the end of the show he revealed a Shepard Fairey designed Olympic poster.  |
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Post by jediak on Feb 12, 2010 10:38:23 GMT -8
Doesn't look too much like Colbert to me but made me laugh none the less, love how he is riding the eagle.
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Post by gilsteph on Feb 12, 2010 11:22:13 GMT -8
Saw this in a local comic shop last week....made me laugh!  |
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 22, 2010 10:55:37 GMT -8
Something for his Deitch show coming up.  |
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Post by svenman on Feb 22, 2010 11:44:53 GMT -8
wow. shep made a portrait of nottingham forest 'legend' jason lee... ;D  |
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Post by meatbag on Mar 23, 2010 19:26:55 GMT -8
amazing piece! I have suspicion that his work will be portaits only on canvas,,, at high prices. YIKEs
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 27, 2010 21:37:33 GMT -8
Another piece for the show at Deitch.  |
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Post by jujurocs on Apr 8, 2010 19:24:24 GMT -8
Shepard Fairey's lawyers must tell who destroyed records....
Evidence ordered released in 'HOPE' artist case
By LARRY NEUMEISTER (AP)
NEW YORK — Lawyers for artist Shepard Fairey must disclose the identities of anyone who deleted or destroyed records related to a copyright dispute over the Barack Obama "HOPE" image, a judge said Monday.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled in favor of The Associated Press in most of its requests for evidence, including when Fairey's lawyers first knew the AP had asserted that it holds the copyright to a photograph the image was based on.
He said lawyers must disclose relevant documents that were deleted or destroyed from Fairey's files and when the deletions or destruction occurred.
Hellerstein further said the lawyers must disclose the identities of anyone who tampered with or destroyed records, commanded and supervised the acts or was told about them.
An attorney for Fairey did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
Dale Cendali, a lawyer for the AP, said the news organization was "very pleased" with the order.
"The discovery in this case has been unnecessarily burdensome for The Associated Press as a result of Fairey's discovery abuses," she said. "We're very pleased that the court is requiring Shepard Fairey and his companies to comply promptly with their discovery obligations."
Fairey sued the AP last year, asking a judge to rule that his artwork does not infringe copyrights held by the AP. The AP countersued a month later, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of one of the news cooperative's pictures violated copyright laws and posed a threat to journalism.
Earlier this year, it was disclosed in court that Fairey is under criminal investigation after he said he erred about which AP photo he used as a basis for "HOPE." He acknowledged that he had submitted false images and deleted other images to conceal his actions.
On Monday, the judge ordered Fairey and his companies to disclose how their computer files were searched for relevant legal records, rejecting arguments that doing so presented an undue burden because former lawyers conducted the search.
"The details of the search, and of what was searched, are relevant to the claims and defenses of this lawsuit, particularly in light of the destruction of documents that occurred in this case," the judge wrote.
The judge also overruled the objections of Fairey's lawyers and ordered the disclosure of financial records related to Internet sales of the Obama poster. Hellerstein said the information was relevant to resolve issues of copyright infringement and damages.
The judge said excuses offered by the plaintiffs for not producing all aspects of their financial records were frivolous, and said they must be turned over within two weeks.
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