Posts Tagged ‘street art’
Art Preserving Art
08Nov10
by Caroline Newman The UCLA Fowler Museum is currently exhibiting “Street Art: Photographic Elevations of Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin by Larry Yust,” which explores the often over-looked art form, graffiti, within these three prominent cities. For the past eight years, filmmaker and photographer Larry Yust has been capturing images of urban landscapes and compositing […]
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Tags: Larry Yust, Los Angeles, Paris Berlin, street art, UCLA Fowler Museum
By Emily Waldorf Street-artist Shepard Fairey filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against The Associated Press, requesting that he be protected from copyright infringement in his use of a news photograph as the starting point for his famous poster of President Obama. The photograph was taken by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, who, to complicate matters even further, […]
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Tags: AP, arrested, Boston, graffiti art, guerilla art, Institute of Contemporary Art, lawsuit, Mannie Garcia, Obama Hope poster, Shepard Fairey, street art, The Associated Press