The first-ever collaboration between Shepard and the estate of legendary photographer Jim Marshall, American Civics, debuts this month! Shepard is interpreting Marshall's iconic photography from the 1960's, including images of Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez, and Fannie Lee Chaney, with five new works, vividly depicting the humanity behind some of the country's enduring social issues: Voting Rights, Mass Incarceration, Worker's Rights, Gun Culture, and Two Americas.
"I remove the guy next to Cesar Chavez. I made him sticking his head up a little higher, so he's a little bit more in the negative space. I collaged a lot of other images of Jim Marshall's other photos in the march, things that reinforced the narrative. That's all collaged by hand and all painted with stencils and spray paint and a brush."
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