Steve Pyke's Photographs of Philosophers

It's always interesting to get a sense of what philosophers look like. Steve Pyke's photographic portraits of philosophers appeared in book form as Philosophers in 1993 (I reviewed it for a magazine called Cogito). Since then his photographs have been the staple of philosophy book covers and publisher's catalogues, almost to the point of cliché. The distortions produced by placing his lens close to his sitter's face are now in some cases more familiar than the philosophers' less stylised images. If you haven't yet seen them, Philosophers 1 (which selects 36 images) is the place to start, though some of these border on mild caricature... The short quotations from each philosopher - included on his website - are interesting too. A more recent gentler series, Philosophers 11 (another 25 images) also exists. There is still at least one obvious omission though...