Rachel Maddow pokes fun at stock photos every few months.  Here's one of her many segments:

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I was just looking at some recent submissions at a new stock site and before long I was laughing at the number of photos of cell phones.   It boggles the mind.  It is the mantra of stock photo-ology.  Just keep chanting: cell phone.  Woman with cell phone.  Businessman with cell phone.  Baby with cell phone.   Cell phone with cell phone.  Group of happy ethnic cell phones.  Cell phone wearing headset.  Dog eating cell phone.

The universal ingredient: take any stock photo concept, and add a cell phone.  Banana isolated on white, talking on cell phone.  Beaker of toxic sludge containing cell phone.   Confident surgeon performing heart transplant. while talking on cell phone.  Patient answering cell phone while receiving heart transplant.