Graffiti Art Takes Presidential Race to the Streets

POSTER BOY FOR ‘HOPE’: L.A.-based artist Shepard
Fairey created the now-ubiquitous graphic of Obama,
who wrote to him, “Your images have a profound effect
on people.” (Photo: Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times

Artists including Shepard Fairey and Ray Noland head to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, home of MoveOn.org’s Manifest Hope Gallery Contest.

By Kate Linthicum
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 23, 2008

ON A brick wall in downtown Atlanta that usually is splattered with graffiti tag names, a spray-paint portrait of Barack Obama now gazes over the streetscape.

In Chicago, an abandoned warehouse on the city’s South Side displays a life-size silhouette of the Illinois senator, microphone in hand.

And all over Los Angeles — on stop signs, underpasses, buildings and billboards — hundreds of posters and stickers of Obama, emblazoned with the word “Hope,” have been slapped up, guerrilla-style. Read More.

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