If you like portraiture or are fascinated by peoples' faces, don't miss Eric Myer's engrossing Stereotypes I, II, and III, three series of user-selected recombinant portraits. Myer is a Malibu, California professional specializing in location and portrait photography for advertising, editorial and corporate clients. Photo District News pegged "...his signature portrait style: clean, ungimmicky, character-driven shots of real people on location."
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Mike (Thanks to John Hogg)
Fun!
What struck me as most strange is that, since I live in the San Francisco area, I see all of the combinations regularly, including the cop with the nappy hair combo.
Posted by: Awake | Tuesday, 05 February 2008 at 10:42 AM
The recombinant portraits are,in my opinion,a clever and interesting gimmick but falls far short of what I would find to be photographic excellence. This slick work is worthy of the best in Bronx cheers says this old tripod stuck in the mud.
Posted by: Claire Senft | Tuesday, 05 February 2008 at 01:33 PM
Sorry, but I don't think this is excellence at all. Random, yes.
The gimmicky photo mash-up was interesting for five minutes and then I went searching for excellence in the other parts of the site. The other portraits on his site are slick photos of brainless, clean cut people with ever-present Colgate smiles.
Give me a real street photographer any day.
Posted by: Huw Morgan | Tuesday, 05 February 2008 at 05:15 PM
Mike,
the name is Myer, Eric Myer sans "s".
Eric was a client of mine when he started doing these portraits and I did a lot of the retouching on the original B&W portraits intended for print.
The web version is a lot of fun and the interactivity more appropriate to the concept.
Antonis
Posted by: Antonis Ricos | Tuesday, 05 February 2008 at 05:22 PM