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Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey printed images of the wrestler Andre the Giant and decided to experiment with repetition of an image. He travelled all over the world and put these large posters up using fly-posters. The simple image began to take on new meanings as the public tried to understand what the poster meant. The image was left open to interpretation of the audience and would become a symbol of something much more important than it actually was.
Almost all of his work is politically motivated and using posters as his personal method of spreading information and politically charged and controversial images in the centre of cities and towns, right in the middle of the everyday life of normal civilians.
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