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The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of US presidential candidate Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey. The image was widely described as iconic and came to represent Obama's 2008 presidential campaign .
Street artist, graphic designer, and activist Shepard Fairey created this visionary portrait of then Senator Barack Obama in 2008 as a form of grassroots activism to support Obama’s first presidential campaign.
The story behind the artwork that defined the Obama campaign is a fascinating one. Shepard Fairey's posters achieved prominence much in the same way that Obama did. They rose from the ground up.
At the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 27, Barack Obama was formally selected as the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 2008. [3] He was the first African American in history to be nominated on a major party ticket. [4]
To show his support for Barack Obama, Los Angeles-based graphic designer Shepard Fairey created a large-scale, red, white and blue collage of the President-elect. From there, Hope , as he calls...
1. Widely considered to be a pop cultural phenomenon, this iconic portrait of Barack Obama caught the attention of millions during the historic 2008 presidential campaign. The renowned poster...
The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of former US president Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey.
This iconic poster was originally created without permission from Obama's campaign and set off a legal battle about the copyright of the source photograph. Fairey self-funded the poster, distributing half a million copies. The image was then presented by hundreds of others on fly.
The vastness and variety of Obama paraphernalia seemed to start with an image called "HOPE." It features the face of the senator rendered in red, white and blue.
The “Hope” poster created for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign is perhaps the most iconic presidential campaign poster of all time. The poster is a stencil style portrait of the President with the word “hope” directly under the image.