Or: Pregnant, Headless, Thin, White and Definitely Middle Class.
Or: (In the language of Stockphotoland) “Headless Person Holding On to Exposed Pregnant Belly While Wearing Tight Top.”
Or: In which I investigate the rise of stock photography in online "news" and the made-for-marketing "society" it reflects.
Or: How Click-Bait Narrows Our Horizons
Or: My Adventures in Stockphotoland
Or: (In the language of Stockphotoland) “Headless Person Holding On to Exposed Pregnant Belly While Wearing Tight Top.”
Or: In which I investigate the rise of stock photography in online "news" and the made-for-marketing "society" it reflects.
Or: How Click-Bait Narrows Our Horizons
Or: My Adventures in Stockphotoland
Intro: A Festival of Torsos
I started thinking about stock photography representations in online news, and of women in particular, a couple of years ago after noticing how many articles about reproductive health issues on the two main commercial news web sites (nzherald.co.nz, owned by APN and stuff.co.nz, owned by Fairfax) were illustrated by stock images of very pregnant torsos – whether those torsos were relevant to the article or not. Some weeks, it seems like there was a pregnant-torso-worthy story almost every day. Here's a selection:
