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Stephen Webster, a photographer, photo illustrator and videographer based in Columbus, OH, who, for his own amusement and that of others, used to photograph cheap plastic toys in fake exotic settings and very important people. These days, he makes pictures for a big hospital.
Stock
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Getty Images represents many of the images created by Stephen Webster for Photonica or those of his alter ego, Otto Hyde. +1 800 462 4379Additional images: If you have seen an assignment image that you are interested in licensing, but is not shown here, contact us. It may be available.
Books
The Unportfolio A sampling of nearly two decades of playful image making that Photo District News once described as resembling “a head on collision between René Magritte, a View Master, and the Brady Bunch.”
Beginning as mere composition studies created in his tiny bedroom, these ridiculous images helped launch the career of photo illustrator, Stephen Webster. Using toys as metaphors, this imagery has been called upon to teach you how to invest your money, make you immortal, editorialize sex positions, and even launch a television network, but always with sly wink of Stephen and a smile on the viewers face.
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Business Issues A collection of images created as an anti-thesis to motivational posters. Inspired by an uninspiring corporate culture where paranoia and oppression rule, these images have been created to illustrate the existence in the life, but in a humorous way. View a gallery of the Business Issues here.
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