What are the definitive Photo-Cliches of the past decade.

[joeyrsmith]

"Giclée"

Amen to that.
At a very recent art fair here in the Keys, I had a rich kinda snooty women say to me, "is that a Giclee?". I said "its my photo printed on canvas".
She looked at me very weird while I smiled pleasently. She says that means its a Giclee.
I said "no, thats a french word for printed on canvas, and I dont speak French"
She huffed and walked away.
Someone else bought my Giclee.

[Ross Chambers]

(Warning: Adult content)

"Giclee:
1 Burst of machine gun fire, Envoyer une giclee: To Fire a burst.
2 "Spunk; Spurt of semen, Tirer une giclee To ejaculate"

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French.

I wonder how the Francophile Canadians describe their prints made this way?

Regards - Ross

[Ross Chambers]

Whoops -- Francophone, not Francophile.

Ross

[Dirk Rösler]

"Hi, I am an ART photographer. I make ART. Visit my ARTISTIC web site. My limited edition ART prints are $1000 each, special offer."

200x style

[Mark Sawyer]

Why tilt the frame? Doing so is a cliche response, it seems to me, to the perceived necessity to be original.

Being original has become cliche.

Only by working in cliches can one find an individual vision for today.

[Dirk Rösler]

Being original has become cliche.

Only by working in cliches can one find an individual vision for today.

Very nicely said.

As the answers show, ask enough people and you cover everything as clichéd or having been done before etc. Yet, despite everything having been photographed (I believed within the first 50 years of the medium), there is always potential for the new in everything. Good luck!

[percepts]

My normal response to someone saying one of my prints has been done before is: "Not by me". We all think we can make a better job of it than the next person. Frequently not the case though.
The great photos do tend to be highly original and often there is an element of luck in them. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time and all that.

[percepts]

(Warning: Adult content)

"Giclee:
1 Burst of machine gun fire, Envoyer une giclee: To Fire a burst.
2 "Spunk; Spurt of semen, Tirer une giclee To ejaculate"

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French.

I wonder how the Francophile Canadians describe their prints made this way?

Regards - Ross

Yup you got to be careful with french. I owned a Toyota MR2 years ago which I drove to Paris. Unknown to me the MR2 is known in France as Merde.

[Noeyedear]

Each decade seems to have a definitive photo cliche. In the 60's it was the "grain be damned" pushed Tri-X shot of the gritty inner city. In the 70's it was a portrait shot with a backlit subject standing against a tree with a cascade of internal reflections coming across the image. In the 80's I think it was a row of brightly pastel colored rowboats tied to a dock. In the 90's - I'm not sure. The 2000's I think it was the super-saturated nature porn shot (hello Ken Rockwell). What do you folks think were the leading cliches by decade?

Not shure if this has been suggested as I have not read all the posts.
Surly it must be the camera phone self portrait shot at arms length, as seen on Facebook etc.

Kevin.

[gevalia]

Leonard, you don't get it.

Toyon, I hate those faces. In fact, I never photograph people. I don't like them.

Minimum age to be in one of my photographs is 1 million years.