An old post of mine on the subject of stock photo cliches:
In print advertising, I see the same stock photography themes used over and over and over again:
Corporate types – usually a multicultural group including both genders – circled around a table looking at a chart on an easel .
Hand shakes . Lots and lots of hand shaking. Now very likely to be a man and a woman or interracial , but almost never both; apparently, in the business world, black men don’t shake hands with white women. A man standing in an open plaza surrounded by skyscrapers, gazing up at the future , infinite possibilities, the bull market, excellence, or something like that. An increasingly common version doesn’t have the man gazing up, but he is on his cell phone .
Gather 'round the laptop! The more , the merrier!
[QUOTE=elmwood]Gather 'round the laptop! …
Nanoda
April 10, 2006, 9:22pm
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Every now and again this leads to amusing situations, like Microsoft ads where the person is using a Mac. (can’t find a link right now)
Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com once tracked down someone who was appearing in stock photos all over.
[QUOTE=Nanoda]cockeyed.com once tracked down someone who was appearing in stock photos all over.#12 above…
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Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com once tracked down someone who was appearing in stock photos all over.
Ha! Great find, Nanoda . That made the thread.
Nanoda
April 10, 2006, 11:11pm
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[QUOTE=minor7flat5]#12 above…
Tee hee! :o This always happens when I’m posting from work and can’t take my time reading a thread.
To attempt redemption, I found a link to a Microsoft/Mac ad like I mentioned here . (Though it’s not the one I remember, so they must have screwed up at least twice!)
[QUOTE=elmwood]this woman everywhere. The linked example is at the top of the control panel page for my Web site.
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That’s nothing - I think she also works at a local indian restaurant with a rather splendid name.
I am undecided as to whether this is her or a look-alike branching out into web surveys.
It may just be that there is some sort of ‘generic hot but intelligent geek chick’ meme working its way around the web design shops of the world.
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:rolleyes:
It is pretty serious here. Newspapers have been using stock photos from other countries as photos of Australians. Mediawatch Media Watch seems the only people criticising this
