• I'm trying to find a specific stock photographer/artist and his surreal-looking work
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This is likely an extremely odd thing to be asking the forums for help with and kind of a hopeless shot-in-the-dark attempt, but bare with me. I remember my dad owning 10 or 12 stock photo catalogs made by a specific company that neither of us remembers (He says that it might have been iStock but he's not sure), and the books were probably made from between the late 90s and the early 2000s. Usually, the second half of each of those catalogs would have pretty neat and surreal looking stock photos, some like optical illusions and some sorta like Inception or M.C. Escher. If I remember correctly, the ones I was fond of were the ones that heavily used Earth imagery, space imagery, nature imagery like grass, trees, and the blue sky, business men (who were sometimes silhouettes) standing up straight, lightbulb imagery, 3D/2D primitive shapes, and/or the colors red, green, blue, black and white. The stock photos were very likely photoshopped due to how the images were composited, though there was a use of photos for at least some of them. I believe that there was a stock photo were a square, circle and triangle that were colored RGB in no particular order were resting on the horizon with a photo of grass under the horizon with either a black background or a photo of the sky above it. I also remember one where there was an earth inside someone's head from a profile view, and one where the earth was inside a lightbulb. I think the photographer/artist's first name was Peter, but I could be wrong. I would check the catalog books myself, but unfortunately, my dad doesn't have those books anymore as he had given away some of those books and threw the rest into the trash (probably because me and my siblings used to cut out pictures from those catalogs) a while back. I'm hoping that by some rare chance someone on here at least knows about what I'm talking about even though the photographer was likely obscure. I just want to experience some more nostalgia as someone who used to go through them. Here's a couple random stock photos to give you an idea of how they usually looked. They don't exactly 100% represent the kind of work that this photographer did, but it's probably close enough. [t]http://www.gtreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Earth-Globe-World-Map-Human-Face-1024x682.jpg[/t] [t]http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5D99E/illustration-of-basic-shapes-and-colour-of-red-green-blue-cube-sphere-E5D99E.jpg[/t]
Okay, so I quickly threw this together as a better representation of this guy's work. [t]http://i.imgur.com/CdpcMlK.png[/t] Not all of this person's work follows this exact composition (and I'm not even sure if this particular composition exists), but they do share similar motifs and colors.
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