Name That Photog

December 14, 2004 12:40 PM

I am looking for the name or a link to a photographer who shoots pictures of store shelves filled with products, and then photoshops out all the branding / logos etc. so that the shelves appear to be filled with blank products. [+]

I'm fairly certain I once saw it linked off of MetaFilter, but it would have been over a year ago. Searches of MeFi archives and googling terms like 'blank products' and various iterations have turned up nothing; I'm hoping someone here either bookmarked it or can point me in the right direction.

posted by id girl to media & arts (12 comments total)

Andreas Gursky?
posted by zadcat at 1:01 PM on December 14, 2004

do you mean andreas gursky?

http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/gursky/gursky99cent.jpg
posted by elsar at 1:02 PM on December 14, 2004

I think I remember that too but it wasnt Gursky. I remember a photo of a magazine stand with all the writing removed (Logos etc.) and someone commented it had a nice, quiet zen feel to it.
posted by vacapinta at 1:16 PM on December 14, 2004

Gursky's work is so close, but it's not quite what I'm thinking of. vacapinta has it right, it had a very quiet, zenlike feeling to it. The images that I remember were also dominantly white or very muted colours.
posted by id girl at 1:20 PM on December 14, 2004

Bam.
posted by rafter at 1:34 PM on December 14, 2004

Discussed on Mefi here. His floating logos, also available on his site, are really cool as well.
posted by rafter at 1:37 PM on December 14, 2004

Could it be Damien Hirst? I know he doesn't always photograph, but it sounds kind of like him.
posted by xammerboy at 1:39 PM on December 14, 2004

I know askme isn't for chat but wow - these Matt Siber photos are so cool. Thanks for asking id girl.
posted by CunningLinguist at 1:53 PM on December 14, 2004

Wow, those Matt Siber images are fantastic. But alas, still not what I'm thinking of. I'm starting to wonder if I imagined these images in a dream or something - I have such a vivid image in my head of a supermarket with shelves full of blank products.
posted by id girl at 1:58 PM on December 14, 2004

No, you're definitely not hallucinating. I'm still Googling for them, but I've seen them too... I think shows in Williamsburg, actually. The hard way: start with these galleries on this pulldown list.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 2:57 PM on December 14, 2004

I've seen these photos in Adbusters magazine but alas, I believe the issue containing the photos in question is at my parents' house... the Adbusters site reveals nothing and a metafilter search for 'Adbusters' reveals plenty of Adbusters links but not what you're looking for... can any other Adbusters readers help out?
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 11:08 PM on December 14, 2004

Fuzzy Monster, I think you may be right about the adbusters thing. I probably saw it in a print issue, but that would have to have been more than a year or two ago. I'll keep looking around, I know I still have some back issues lying around somewhere.

Thank you to everyone who posted links, at least I got to see some very cool photography as a result of my question.
posted by id girl at 2:44 PM on December 15, 2004