Shepard Fairey Iggy Pop & Stooges 2013 Signed Screen Print 18x24 Ed 450
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SHEPARD FAIREY — IGGY AND THE STOOGES 2013
Signed & Numbered Screen Print | Edition of 450 | 18 x 24 Inches
A killer intersection of Shepard Fairey, punk-rock history and one of the most influential bands ever to turn an amplifier up too loud.
Created by Shepard Fairey in 2013 for Iggy and the Stooges' headline appearance at the C2SV Festival in San Jose, California, this official OBEY screen print commemorates the band's September 28, 2013 performance and deliberately reaches back to the mythology of their landmark 1973 album, Raw Power.
The poster doesn't merely advertise a concert.
It functions as a visual tribute to the raw energy, danger and influence of the Stooges themselves.
At the center is a snarling big cat surrounded by an elaborate symmetrical ornamental structure. On either side appear two words that summarize the band almost perfectly:
RAW — POWER
Below it:
SEARCH & DESTROY
Those aren't arbitrary phrases.
Raw Power was the Stooges' legendary 1973 album, while “Search and Destroy” was its explosive opening track. The album was produced by Iggy Pop and originally mixed by David Bowie, and it went on to become one of the foundational records in the development of punk and hard rock. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame describes the Stooges as essentially punk before punk existed, while the band's official history calls Raw Power a cornerstone of the punk and hard-rock canon.
IGGY POP + JAMES WILLIAMSON
The bottom of the composition brings the historical connection even closer.
On the right is Iggy Pop.
On the left is legendary Stooges guitarist James Williamson.
That pairing matters enormously to Raw Power.
Williamson joined the Stooges before the album and played the ferocious guitar parts that helped distinguish Raw Power from the band's earlier records. Iggy and Williamson co-wrote the album's eight songs, including “Search and Destroy.”
Fairey wasn't working from anonymous archival imagery, either.
According to Shepard Fairey's original release statement, his friend Robert Matheu photographed James Williamson, while Jennifer Anderson supplied the Iggy Pop photograph used in the composition.
That gives the print a documented connection not only to the band but to the actual photographic sources used to build the artwork.
WHY THE DESIGN WORKS
Visually, this is one of Fairey's strongest music posters because he avoids making it look like a conventional rock-show advertisement.
There are almost no unnecessary colors.
The image is dominated by black and warm cream, allowing the intricate line work to do the heavy lifting.
The central animal is aggressive—mouth open, teeth exposed—but it is surrounded by almost hypnotically precise floral and geometric ornamentation.
That contrast is pure Fairey:
Aggression + beauty.
Chaos + order.
Punk rock + highly disciplined graphic design.
The snarling animal communicates exactly what the text announces:
RAW POWER
Then Fairey surrounds that aggression with decorative geometry that almost resembles a mandala, vintage textile pattern or elaborate heraldic crest.
It elevates the Stooges from simply being musicians appearing at a festival into something closer to punk-rock iconography.
“SEARCH & DESTROY”
For Stooges collectors, those three words may be the strongest element in the entire print.
“Search and Destroy” isn't merely a well-known Iggy Pop song.
It opens Raw Power and became one of the defining recordings associated with the Stooges' proto-punk legacy. The Rock Hall includes it in its historical punk curriculum alongside later songs by the Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, Black Flag and others—illustrating how early the Stooges were relative to the punk explosion they helped inspire.
Fairey's decision to make SEARCH & DESTROY one of the largest elements in the image therefore connects the 2013 concert directly back to 1973.
Forty years separate the album and the poster.
The visual message is that the attitude hadn't changed.
THE 2013 C2SV PERFORMANCE
The print was created specifically for the band's appearance at the C2SV Music Festival in downtown San Jose.
Fairey himself wrote that he “jumped at the opportunity” to create the poster and described the Stooges live as phenomenal. The September 28 concert was the festival's headline event.
And retrospectively, the concert became more historically interesting than anyone likely realized when the print was released.
A later Metro Silicon Valley history of the performance describes San Jose as the Stooges' last stop before the band went inactive. After that show, the group went quiet; Scott Asheton and Steve Mackay subsequently died, and the Stooges ultimately ceased functioning as a band.
That gives this poster an accidental historical significance.
Fairey created it to celebrate an upcoming Stooges show.
Today it also documents the closing chapter of the band's live history.
LIMITED RELEASE — ONLY 450
Fairey's official release records confirm:
Artist: Shepard Fairey
Title: Iggy and the Stooges 2013
Year: 2013
Medium: Screen Print
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Edition: 450
Signed: Yes
Numbered: Yes
Original Release: September 26, 2013
Original Price: $50
Publisher: OBEY Giant
Event: C2SV Festival, San Jose, California
Concert Date: September 28, 2013
The distribution is especially interesting.
Only 250 copies were released through OBEYGIANT.com.
The remaining 200 were made available on site at the C2SV Festival.
So this wasn't simply another unlimited concert reproduction. It was a genuine signed and numbered Fairey edition tied directly to the event.
THE OBEY / MUSIC CONNECTION
Music has always been deeply embedded in Shepard Fairey's work.
Fairey's graphic vocabulary grew out of the same ecosystem as punk, skateboarding, DIY flyers, record sleeves and underground street culture.
The Stooges are therefore an almost perfect Fairey subject.
Long before punk became a clearly defined genre, Iggy Pop and the Stooges were already creating the confrontational performances and stripped-down high-energy music that later punk bands would build upon. The band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, three years before this print was released.
The combination of Fairey + Iggy Pop + James Williamson + Raw Power + Search and Destroy makes this considerably more collectible than a generic festival poster.
COLLECTOR APPEAL
This edition crosses several serious collecting categories:
- Shepard Fairey / OBEY
- Iggy Pop memorabilia
- The Stooges
- Punk-rock history
- Concert posters
- 2013 C2SV Festival
- Raw Power
- Search and Destroy
- Signed contemporary prints
- Limited-edition music art
And importantly, you don't have to be a hardcore Fairey collector to understand the image.
An Iggy Pop collector gets it.
A punk collector gets it.
A record collector gets it.
A Fairey collector gets it.
That broader buyer pool is a real advantage when selling.
PRESENTATION
The black-and-cream palette makes this exceptionally easy to display.
It works beautifully in a simple black frame with a cream or white mat, where the ornate border almost creates the illusion of another frame inside the artwork.
The interior photographs in this listing are presentation mockups showing approximate scale only. Unless specifically stated otherwise, the artwork itself is offered unframed.
Please examine the photographs of the actual print carefully for condition, signature, edition numbering, edges and corners.
WHY THIS ONE IS WORTH OWNING
There are plenty of Shepard Fairey music prints.
This one has an unusually complete story.
It celebrates one of the foundational bands in punk history.
It explicitly references Raw Power and “Search and Destroy.”
It depicts both Iggy Pop and James Williamson.
Its photographic sources are documented.
It was produced specifically for a real Stooges performance.
Only 450 signed and numbered examples were produced.
And the concert it commemorated ultimately became one of the final moments in the history of the Stooges.
So what initially looks like an exceptionally good Shepard Fairey concert poster becomes something more interesting once you know the history:
a limited-edition artifact connecting 1973's Raw Power to the final chapter of the Stooges forty years later.
For a collector of Shepard Fairey, Iggy Pop, punk history or important music-related prints, this is an outstanding piece.
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