Gauntlet Gallery — Shepard Fairey Print Index
Gun Culture
About This Print
(Left): Jim Marshall lived in the distinctive Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York from 1962 to 1964, working with major record labels and news magazines. He shot many of his iconic Bob Dylan photos there. The Village also offered poignant scenes of street life, which Jim captured with his Leica, including a kid resting after playing “good guys vs. bad guys.” (1963). New York City. (Right): Illustration created by Shepard Fairey of Marshall’s photograph. (Jim Marshall Photography LLC/Photo Illustration by Shepard Fairey based on work by Jim Marshall) “This obsession with guns is ingrained, and it starts at a young age. And that kid could have innocently been playing ‘good guys and bad guys,’ but it also has a deeper implication of just how culturally ingrained guns are and how that allows gun ownership to trump safety. The sidewalk is the American flag. That to me — it’s such a loaded symbol — and sometimes that can be something that is an easy gimmick, but I really think it’s meaningful in this because it’s almost [as if] you’re un-American if you don’t support gun rights.”
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