Taking stock
I noticed these two books on the same new releases table at Borders, and was surprised that they had been published almost simultaneously -- using the same stock photo on their jackets.
"Loop Group" by Larry McMurtry
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743250796.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
"Bra: A Thousand Years Of Style, Support & Seduction" by Stephanie Pedersen
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/071532067X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
My friend Dave at Getty confirmed that this is one of theirs, "Image # 200018296-001, from our 'Taxi' collection."
Are we supposed to be titillated?
M.
9.Dec.2004 5.58pm
I think it's a bust.
9.Dec.2004 7.49pm
Here are a couple more cases (via a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly) involving two editions of the same book:
The Middle Mind (hardcover) vs. The Philosopher at the End of the Universe.
And, for an encore, The Middle Mind (paperback) vs. Never Coming to a Theater Near You.
You'd think one of these days people would wise up and start hiring photographers and illustrators again.
9.Dec.2004 8.12pm
"The Middle Mind : Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves"
good title for stock imagery, isn't it?
18.Dec.2004 2.27am
I went into a Borders on Charing Cross Road, London this Wednesday only to find this:
on the information desk.