The Street Artist Who Won’t Quit: The Story Of Shepard Fairey

The Photographer Likes The Poster

To further complicate the matter, the photographer who took the photo in question, Mannie Garcia, told The New York Times that he owns the copyright to the photo — not the Associated Press — according to his contract with them at the time. “I don’t condone people taking things, just because they can, off the Internet. But in this case I think it’s a very unique situation… If you put all the legal stuff away, I’m so proud of the photograph and that Fairey did what he did artistically with it, and the effect it’s had,” Garcia said in 2009.