[Leica] Fairey pleads his case

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Shepard Fairey has decided to go to the The Huffington Post to plead  
his case. He describes his process, his problems with the AP's  
complaints over his Obama poster, and describes his battle as a fight  
"to protect the rights of all artists." Fairey fails to make a  
particularly strong case for himself. His not wanting to feel forced  
to collaborate with photographers when he is using their work is  
clearly tortured logic. He calls out all of the other pieces of art  
that were clearly referenced from photographs, but haven't attracted  
the attention that his Obama print has.

To read the whole piece:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shepard-fairey/the-ap-obama- 
referencing_b_179562.html

Larry Z