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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/22/2009

Iconic Obama poster looks a whole lot like freelancer's photo

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Everybody now knows this image of President Barack Obama . It's everywhere on the planet, including T-shirts in foreign lands that don't care if the White Sox ever make the playoffs. It's the Hope poster created by artist Shepard Fairey that became an election campaign icon an d now ...

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blogs.phillynews.com - 1/21/2009

Found - AGAIN - the Poster Source Photo

— blogs.phillynews.com — The photographer is MANNIE GARCIA, a Washington DC freelancer for the Associated Press. Driving home from Washington... after the inauguration, cruising on adrenalin from covering the historic event and then stopping two or three times for coffee, and ... (more) Found - AGAIN - the Poster Source Photo

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blogs.abcnews.com - 1/21/2009

Iconic Obama Artwork Finds a Home

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: The iconic image of President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign is now on display... permanently at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The original painting, by Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey, was unveiled ... (more) Iconic Obama Artwork Finds a Home

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TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... The Lose Angeles Times reports that the iconic "Hope" poster of Obama appears to have been copied from an Associated Press photo of Obama from 2006. Perhaps worse, the possibility exists that at the moment the photo was taken, Obama was listening to a very grisly speech about the genocide in Darfur. ...

There is apparently no news anywhere in the world
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com — ... The L.A. Times has broken the stunning story- one that could completely shatter the mandate of the Obama administration- that apparently, an illustration of Obama is based on a real photograph of him. ...