7.08.2008

Exhibit 10.22

Stock Photography Review

They say you can judge a society by how it treats its worst citizens, and there's no reason to think this isn't a good way to judge stock photography as well. Here are some examples of how stock photography handles the sick among us because they are anonymous consumers of products too.



You can't really get much worse off than this lady, who appears to have caught all the diseases. As she uses her non-branded computer to check the Internet for possible cures to Headache/Stomachache/Pregnancy, she swallows pill after pill, no longer caring if she ends up like her cousin:


Oh, poor Tiffany. If only they hadn't made her pills in the same color scheme as her favorite variety of Good & Plenty...

By the way, that photo is pretty much perfect if you're trying to sell...

A) Nothing
B) A Way Out
C) Durable Brown Plastic Pill Bottles


Gerry wasn't sure how to immortalize Grandpa until he saw a newspaper ad seeking models for stock photos...

I'd like to think that whoever took this photo was really excited about cornering the market on corpse photos.


There's nothing really remarkable about this one except for the fact Tiny Head here was probably actually sick the day they taught fake coughing in his San Bernardino Community College acting class. It was his one chance to get an 'A' which would have saved him from a life spent acting, poorly, like he was actually sick.

Of course, then there are the lucky models like this kid:


Somehow he lucked into his own series of stock photos taking place in a dystopian future where tracking done by forehead barcodes has replaced traditional parenting.

That's like the Star Wars of the stock photography world.


My god, these two look horrible. What happened to them?


Ah, of course.

1 comment:

Dusty said...

You probably know this, but I think the weird waify kid is getting his temperature taken by senso-strip. I remember my mother doing this to me when I was a boy; it was, like, easier than sticking a thermometer in my mouth. She just put something like a mood ring on my forehead, a scientific, gauged form of the back of her own dumb hand.

I'd forgotten completely about this until I saw your review. Thanks.