any two for five
... It’s perhaps in this way that we can understand Stier’s images. Their ugliness is a form of appeal. What use are beautiful products? We know well enough that the advertised image is only a costume worn by the commodity, which, when we have it in our hands and really get to know it, is unsatisfactory, and unfulfilling. Stier’s images have about them a little of the flashgun-glare of that pre-internet phenomenon, ‘Readers’ Wives’. These products are not given soft lighting or cheesy storylines. They don’t need them. These products are there to be used, immediately, and we want to use them, without much thought or consideration, to satisfy our basic needs, so that we can get on with the rest of our lives. These products are our lives.

Daniel Jewesbury in Source Magazine