Artist Statement
“The first-ever collaboration between Shepard and the estate of legendary photographer Jim Marshall, American Civics, debuts this month! Shepard is interpreting Marshall's iconic photography from the 1960's, including images of Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez, and Fannie Lee Chaney, with five new works, vividly depicting the humanity behind some of the country's enduring social issues: Voting Rights, Mass Incarceration, Worker's Rights, Gun Culture, and Two Americas. "This obsession with guns is ingrained, and it starts at a young age. And that kid could have innocently been playing 'good guys and b
About This Print
Gun Culture is a 2016 screen print from Shepard Fairey's American Civics series, his first collaboration with the estate of photographer Jim Marshall. The image confronts how deeply guns are culturally ingrained in America, using a sidewalk rendered as the American flag as a loaded symbol of how gun rights become equated with patriotism. Published by San Francisco Art Exchange in a first edition of 100, the print measures 40 x 30 inches. One of five works addressing enduring social issues, it reinterprets Marshall's 1960s photography through Fairey's graphic, propaganda-influenced style to question how gun ownership is taught from a young age.
Market Context
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