Editor’s Note: Shepard Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer and activist. This is an edited excerpt from “Peace: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” published by Reel Art Press. The peace ...

The new book,Peace: The Biography of Symboltakes a look at the life of the cultural icon The symbol made its first public appearance in April 1958, when campaigners for nuclear disarmament held a ...

Abramović and Tisci’s IRL-rendering is closer to the symbol’s creation story. Designed by British artist Gerald Holtom, the icon first debuted on a London peace march in 1958 and was later ...

The symbol’s adoption by the American Student Peace Union helped establish it as an icon of the 1960s Vietnam protests, and from there it thrived as a signal of solidarity. IWM London’s People ...

No peace sign means no justice to an Upper West Side ... against the city for fining her $800 in 2011 over the neon peace icon in her 17th-floor window, claiming her freedom of speech was violated.

Editor’s Note: Shepard Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer and activist. This is an edited excerpt from “Peace: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” published by Reel Art Press. The peace ...