Herald de Paris interviews “visual anthropologist” Doug Menuez

November 10, 2010 – 10:49 am

The Herald de Paris did an interview with Doug about his early influences (Elliott Erwitt, Sebastiao Salgado, and Mary Ellen Mark, among others), his experience at art school (“torture” is how Doug describes it), how he got Elizabeth Taylor to write a foreword to one of his books, and much more. It’s a great read [...]

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“People ignore generic photos online”

November 5, 2010 – 8:46 am

Is it possible that quality is making a comeback? A new study by author and website consultant Jakob Nielsen focuses on how people interact with images online—and finds that generic stock images are not just unappealing to viewers but also are a big turnoff. Nielsen “points out that the random or stock images on Web [...]

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Doug Menuez invites you to “Chill”

November 2, 2010 – 4:14 pm

Doug and his team at Menuez Archive Projects have posted a collection of images meant to induce a state of relaxation and calm. And not just because they’re model-released and ready to use. No, this edit, which they’ve dubbed “Chill,” is intended to make you feel like this… . . …as if you had just [...]

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Stockland Martel at the Lucies (photos)

November 1, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Lots of great photos from the Lucies last week (scroll down for those), and some great news, to boot: “Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the ’60s”—the record-breaking exhibition at the Getty featuring the work of our own Lauren Greenfield, among other important photographers—won an award for Curator/Exhibition of the Year. Congratulations to the photographers and [...]

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Doug Menuez on photographing hands

October 13, 2010 – 8:00 am

Doug Menuez and the team at his stock site, Menuez Archive Projects, recently combed through his catalog and put together an entire collection of hands-related photos, including these… . .I asked Doug for the backstory on this collection. Here’s what he said: . Why photograph people’s hands? For me, photographing hands is another form of [...]

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Doug Menuez on shooting portraits and connecting with your subjects

October 6, 2010 – 9:05 am

When it comes to portraiture, photographers all have their different styles and approaches, but there’s one thing they can’t do without: trust. Gain your subject’s trust, and the possibilities are endless. “We all hide behind a facade,” notes Doug Menuez. “To get past that, I have to connect with my subjects on a basic human [...]

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Doug Menuez: The need for speed (and other thoughts on having fun)

September 29, 2010 – 9:01 am

No one ever laid on their deathbed saying they wished they’d worked more, or found out they have only six months to live and decided they were going to make as many Powerpoint presentations as they could while they still had time, right? Of course not. We may work to live, but we live to [...]

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Doug Menuez on photographing kids (hint: Forget about being the boss)

September 22, 2010 – 9:46 am

Before he signed with Stockland Martel in 2008, Doug had spent two decades as an award-winning documentary photographer, a period marked by countless days of world travel—and kids, lots of kids, who were his unofficial welcoming party everywhere he went. “I could always count on getting swarmed by curious children as I arrived in some [...]

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Stephanie Menuez joins Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing

July 7, 2010 – 9:00 am

Doug Menuez has lured his sister, longtime photo rep Stephanie Menuez, away from San Francisco to come to New York and join the team at Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing. We’re super excited to have her on board. Here’s the official e-blast that Doug sent out this morning: . . [...]

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Lauren Greenfield’s stock photos: editorial imagery from an award-winning visual storyteller

March 3, 2010 – 2:16 pm

Lauren, as you know, has documented an abundance of people’s stories over the past two decades. By photographing real people in diverse situations for days, weeks, months, and even years, she captures spontaneous moments that can’t always be created in a produced advertising shoot. So her archive represents a rich resource for creatives looking to [...]

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