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Obama, Time’s Person of the Year for 2008

In an obvious move, Time named Barack Obama their Person of the Year for 2008. But give Time credit; they got Shepard Fairey to do the cover based on his iconic poster of Obama.

Update: They’ve also compiled some of the best photos of Obama from Flickr.

Update: Here’s a video of Fairey talking about his work and how he created the Time cover.