AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

Feb 4 06:56 PM US/Eastern By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.

Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.

Here is the final batch of photos I took last month during the EU visit. Many new artist archives with this one, along with some submissions from "Submit" here on the site.

Thanks again for posting and connecting to the Archive.....

Here are some uploads

• Wien/Vienna, Austria
• Berlin
• Italy
• South Carolina, USA
• SHTI (SC) New

Here are the artist uploads for the Europe section

• assonas gallery NEW
• bender NEW
• bocho NEW
• Emporte Moi NEW
• herzog
• knabba NEW
• little lucy NEW
• m city
• mindfuck NEW
• nologo NEW
• superfatcat NEW
• think NEW
• tona
• tt25 NEW
• xoooox

14-time arresstee, and now arguably the most famous American artist in the 21st century, Shepard Fairey chats and stencils during an award acceptance video on USA Network. His original Obama image now lives in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery!

Just uploaded a large chunk of my photos from the past few weeks here in East Europe. And, along with a pile of submissions from artists and photographers, Stencil Archive has passed the 12,000 photo marker! Now that uploading photos online is super easy, I appreciate everyone's participation in this site even more. I am posting to other sites, but only give out 2 or 4. You do know that Flickr/Yahoo owns your photos don't you? Once you upload? Check the agreement you OK'd!

Many, many artists uploaded today. Not everything from Hamburg, Berlin, and Vienna is up yet. Will get to the rest this week or maybe next week back in the USA.

Thanks again for a great mini-tour of the EU. Appreciate the crowds, the interest, the conversations, and the love of spray paint art......

Icy in Iran sent over photos for a new archive

updated archives from

• Larry Cyr
• Tiago
• Peat
• Faile

new pics also found in

• Florida (thanks HTC)
• South Car. (thanks Rachel)
• Nebraska (NEW)
  
• Prague
• Slovakia (NEW)
  
• Kosovo (NEW)
• Hamburg
• Berlin 

and now for the European artist uploads

• alias
• asa
• bad
• c215 (NEW)
• funk
• m city (NEW)
• mo-pi
• ocioso
• piratos
• quasikunst
• penny
• tona
• usp (NEW)
• xooox (NEW)

T & P Fine Art Gallery
Opening Friday Feb 6th 2009 7pm
1143 South 9th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Featuring:
2 Cent, Ame72, Adam 5100, Bandit, Ben Slow, Buildmore, Crystal Shephard, DiRQuo, Dogbyte, Daan, Eelus, Funky Red Dog, Jef Aerosol, JRF, Kenji Nakayama, L.E.T. , Mark Carvalho, Mimi The Clown, Mr. Brainwash, Neverwork, Nick Gentry, NTEL, Papermonster, Pure Evil, Rene Gagnon, Skullphone, Soule.

Paris' 2008 video, "Don't Stop the Movement" shows some serious protest going down in the streets of San Francisco. People are getting up in the background, and stencils, posters, tages, etc. are part of the uprising.

MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose

June 6 - 27, 2009

Da Vinci Gallery
Los Angeles City College
855 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90029
323.953.4000