Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Last week, I felt like the Obama campaign,” fretted a young man in my Chinese 130 section this past Tuesday, bracing himself for the class’s unfathomably early first test. “But today...today just feels like the Obama administration,” he continued, as abounding hope and endless possibilities were subsumed by have-to’s and familiar realities.His is a common sentiment, not only at post-shopping period Harvard, but everywhere in the country. With the President staging an aggressive, cross-country political capital spending spree to drum...
...Addressing the reason why corporations might want to take on the images of an artist who was best known for his subversive, anti-establishment stance prior to the Obama campaign, Dackerman says, “I don’t think that Saks actually loses anything by circulating that kind of subversive imagery, and it makes Saks look hipper and cooler than it usually does...
...presidential hopeful Barack Obama in shades of red, white, and blue with the word “Progress” printed below him as an expression of Fairey’s support for the candidate. Within days, posters had spread all over the internet and the streets. The Obama campaign soon contacted Fairey about making the image an official art of the campaign and changing its tagline from “PROGRESS” to “HOPE...
...Wherever I went in little towns in Ohio, posters by Shepard Fairey, and other artists, were everywhere,” says Rose Styron, a political poet and current fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics who canvassed in the swing state during the campaign. According to Styron, the poster had a tangible, positive affect on her and on fellow campaigners. “It gave us conviction that Obama’s message could be conveyed to young people, a feeling that this was possible...
...Obama poster was a key moment not only in the campaign, but in Fairey’s artistic oeuvre as well. It marked a transformation from political dissident to supporter of a constructive message—the volunteer creator of the presidential election’s most iconic image...