Oh thank God. Finally someone agrees with me. My first experience with her was when some dingbat in my office had a picture of the babies dressed up like peas in a pod. My response was “WTF? The babies are FOOD? We’re supposed to EAT THEM?!?!” Blech!
I hate them! They’re disturbing images. She actually pays the baby models but very very poorly. Parents used to queue for hours to audition for her photo shoots. Yick.
I detest the pumpkin one with the prem baby. that’s verging on child abuse especially as she admitted in an interview that one took a while to shoot.
I find AG’s dreck to be effective as a quick IQ test: like this stuff? 90 brain points, tops. Besides, this anti-anthropomorphism can’t be a healthy way of perceiving children. They’re not some cutesy-ass dressup dolly existing for your amusement, they are people. Shorter than average, of course.
A dude at work, commenting about his soon to be born kid: “We don’t know what his name will be or what religion we’ll raise him in but under no circumstances will we dress him as anything other than a human being!”
Gods, and here I thought I was the only one who thought Geddes was disturbed …
Unfortunately, yes, people still buy this crap. During the time I worked at Borders I sold numerous books, calendars, posters, bookmarks, etc etc etc. Makes me worry for the future of the human race. Come on people, they’re just dressed up babies! That’s all you’re gonna see! Geddes dresses up babies like sad, lonely, obsessive people dress up their dogs every day, and they’re not even her kids! (does she even have kids?)
Never mind the costumes. Anyone who can get more than one baby to look at the camera at the same time is obviously employing some serious drugs.
I’m looking forward to her collaboration with the equally overpraised and past his inspiration date Willaim Wegman.
A baby dressed as a Weimaraner dressed as a baby dressed as a Weimaraner dressed as a …
Slithy Tove, I’m a little worried about you… That you could even imagine such a scenario is a sign of one seriously diseased mind. 
She is the Thomas Kinkaid of photography.
My roommate posted unauthorized A.G. pics up in our living room…and all her room (her space, no biggie). I wish I had the courage to burn the little reindeer and rabbits cursing my couches!!
For a moment, I thought I’d have the terrible, soul-destroying embarrassment of admitting that Anne Geddes is a Kiwi (she’s done a lot of her work here).
Then, I see from her website (the woman’s reg.trademarked her name, for stars sakes …) she was actually born and raised in Queensland, Australia.
Hallelujah. I am saved.
I can see why she’d have to trademark her name. A lot of places around here were doing fake Geddes-type portraits. You think the real thing is bad?
Say cheese…lots of cheese.
“Cheesy” clones well, I find.
When I worked at Waldenbooks, a customer came in once asking for the “Anne Geddes Kama Sutra.” I managed to sputter out “Uh…do you mean the ‘Anne Hooper* Kama Sutra?’” I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or call the cops or both.
For the record, the customer wanted the Anne Hooper book and never caught on to the freakiness of the original request.
*[sub][sup]Anne Hooper is well-known for her how-to type sex publications. She’s very good; all of the pictures in her books are erotic, sensual, understated, and sexy as hell. However, she’s sure as hell not Anne Geddes.)[/sub][/sup]
Juniper200, that just has to be the most disturbing post I’ve read today …
I think the problem is she is being called an artist.
Ughhh!!!
Put me in the Demo and Tranquilis camp.
Babies aside - Quit subjecting me to those sickingly manipulative images!
Guinastasia, you think she is the Thomas Kinkaid of photography? It’s worse. She’s the Thomas Kinkaid and the Bobby Goldsboro of photography all rolled into one.
Yeach!
I don’t care one way or the other myself, but one thing that does bug me about Anne Geddes is that her pictures encourage women that all babies need to be overweight butterballs with rolly-polly arms and round faces to be cute.
Or maybe it’s just my wife who has that delusion…
God, how I hate that picture! I was sent that obscenity as a Thanksgiving card one year. I had to throw it away, because it upset me too much to look at it. And to think it took a while to shoot…:mad:.
You know, Queensland isn’t actually part of Australia. We just pretend for the Olympics and stuff. nods
I still like bee suits.
I love baby halloween costumes. I saw a baby, like eight months in a dinosaur costume last week and almost wet my pants with glee
jar
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/sc_view.cfm?pCatId=3238
Jar, there was one of a Boston Terrier in a bee suit.
damn, THAT was cute.
(but maybe only cause I have BTs)
I was gonna dress up like a queen Bee and have my dogs be my swarm. but the reality was: they wouldnt tolerate the suits for more than 2 seconds.