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Stock photos are nothing new or special, but sometimes, you’ll come across gems that make you look twice, like this image of someone typing through a laptop display while a cat sits nearby. On a similar note, did you know that newspapers and magazines were first able to reproduce photographs instead of line art in the mid-1880s with the invention of the half-tone and its use on a printing press? That’s right, stock photography started with staff photographers, and eventually, independent free-lance photographers took over. One of the first examples of a stock photo was circa 1920 when American photographer H. Armstrong Roberts ensured the people photographed in “Group in Front of Tri-Motor Airplane” all signed model releases. Continue reading for more bizarre stock photos.
10. Throwing Spaghetti in a Forest
9. Cat Boquet
8. Laptop Powered Off with Burglar
7. Bologna Disc
6. No Potatoes
5. Computer Pirate
4. No Words Can Explain
3. Slithering Cat
2. Human in Cage
1. Catanic
