One of the most iconic images of the 2008 US Presidential campaign was the Barack Obama “hope” poster. The image was even used as Time magazine’s cover for their “person of the year” issue in December. This morning the CBS Sunday Morning Show ran a segment profiling the artist that created the image. A video of the segment is embedded below the “applications for education” section.
Applications for Education
The story in the video raises a couple of issues of relevance to classrooms. First, because the image in the poster was created from an Associated Press photo, there is a question regarding fair use of copyrighted images. This story is a good resource for starting a discussion about students about the use of copyrighted images.
Art teachers and students will also be interested in this video as it brings up the question of what is art?
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