American Civics is a fine art limited edition series of five prints:
Voting Rights, Mass Incarceration, Workers' Rights, Gun Culture, and
Two Americas.
This piece is based on a photograph of Johnny Cash taken at Folsom Prison, California, 1968. Cash asked Jim Marshall to photograph his groundbreaking concerts at both Folsom Prison (1968) and San Quentin (1969) Prison to bring awareness to the inhumane prison conditions in the United States.
“In the past, I was doing Johnny Cash images for art or commercial products. In this case, Johnny Cash has a different use. It’s a gateway. If you look at the images woven into the image, there’s Martin Luther King’s mug shot. There’s the prisoner’s bill of rights in the corner. There’s some references to ‘Public Enemy’ that were [in] headlines back in Al Capone’s time. But for me, it also references the [hip-hop] group Public Enemy, which has a song, ‘Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos,’ which is about a prison break.” --Shepard Fairey
A portion of proceeds will benefit
cut50 and the
Jim Marshall Fellowship at UC Berkeley.
Release Notes:
4-Color Serigraph on Varnished 100% Cotton Rag Archival Paper.
Collector's Notes:
Each print is hand-signed and numbered by Shepard Fairey and stamped by Jim Marshall Photography LLC.
Buyers will receive a certificate of authenticity following delivery. Please contact us with any questions!