Nine Reasons Not to Use Stock Photography
For years we've made fun of stock photography and the marketers that use it pointing out the pitfalls such as the same models appearing at the same time for different advertisers and the poses that are completely devoid of anything resembling real life but we've never gone so far as to dedicate and entire web page to them.
Now we have "9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models." From creepy parents to "curly haired black women 'going moist' for wireless broadband routers" to "People who sit in cramped cubicles answering customer service calls in drab corporate call centers are overjoyed to help fix your DSL modem" to the over representation of African Americans to stupid laptop poses to "Random-ass white dudes should be placed all over your corporate website for no fucking reason," this site cuts through all the crap and tells it like it is. Check it our before you choose your next stock photo
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Maddox is hilarious, love this site ...
Nowwashyourhands.com also did a funny business stock photo parody here.
This was great.
Makes me wonder which is better, the rock or the hard place, considering I'm a 27 year old, female, Miami-Florida raised Cuban, fine artist, writer, poet, musician, and nothing shows up with someone like me! Or close to me. Urgh! Hahahaha. I thought I was eccentric enough, maybe a bit different but the same here and there... nothing works!
Thank You.
I think we should go thru most of the General Market shops and stick For Placement Only stickers on the foreheads of their ethnic employees. I think then some clients (and some agencies) might "get it".
but way too many stock shops still over-index on the tattooed hipster brigade and the name of diversity...
but hey, gotta give the people what they want.
That's really funny...
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What made it even funnier for me was my recognition of one of the Asian models from our recruiting material...