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Norman Rockwell's runaway boy revisited.
However, in response to the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, New York City-based illustrator Anthony Freda has reworked the iconic image to draw attention to the changing public perception of police officers.
In Freda’s update, which he created last Thursday, the policeman is wearing a riot helmet and bulletproof vest and has an assault weapon by his feet. Next to him is a frightened looking black boy, suggesting that half a century later, America is a long way off from the quintessential Americana associated with Rockwell’s work.
Freda made the piece digitally, drawing the boy and policeman over Rockwell’s original. The artist used contemporary photographs as references, images that have become seared in the public’s consciousness since Michael Brown died in Ferguson on August 9 from the six bullets fired from a policeman's gun.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/rethinking-rockwell-time-ferguson-180952485/#AXI1X726uyc6hQuY.99
