Monthly Archives: July 2009

Afar, a new travel magazine and “media brand”

In the old days, when someone started a new publication, it was called a magazine launch. In our post-print world, though, such an event is referred to as the launch of a “media brand.” That means a highly functioning destination website with original content, including video; it means television programming; it means products.
This is what [...]

Not your typical redesign: behind the scenes of Doug Menuez’s new website

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Doug Menuez wanted to redesign his website so that busy art buyers could use it with ease. But with thousands of images and three decades of work in fine art, photojournalism, and advertising, he first had to ask himself a very important question: “How the f*ck do I represent what I do?”
Or, more precisely, “How [...]

Advertisers to consumers: I want to be in a relationship with you

Advertising agency Ogilvy sent a staffer to Chicago last week for the BlogHer ’09 conference, which celebrates women who blog. And while I’m not sure how that’s different from men who blog—and I don’t want to get bogged down in semantics or gender politics here—the conference yielded some insights of use to people of all [...]

Remembering Merce Cunningham

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In his Huffington Post column, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders pays tribute to Merce Cunningham, who died yesterday at the age of 90. Timothy recalls photographing the iconic dancer and choreographer in 1989, a session at which he also made the above portrait of Cunningham with artist Jasper Johns and composer John Cage. “It was a wonderful day,” [...]

Highlights from our Hollywood East cocktail party

Last week, Stockland Martel hosted a private cocktail party to celebrate our friends who work in the entertainment business here on the East Coast. It was our way of saying thanks for all the great creative collaborations we’ve enjoyed with our colleagues in the movie, TV, magazine, and recording industries. It was also, as you [...]

Celebrity portraits from Comic-Con


More than 125,000 people turned out for Comic-Con International in San Diego July 22 through 26, including quite a few famous faces from Hollywood—Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, Josh Brolin, Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, and many more.
Entertainment Weekly commissioned Michael Muller to shoot portraits of the event’s celebrity attendees, and his 34-photo portfolio is featured [...]

Lürzer’s Archive’s print ad of the week is…

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…this one for the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, photographed by Nadav Kander. Nadav shot it for David & Goliath, El Segundo, working with art directors Todd Rone Parker and John Kieselhorst. Our sincere thanks to Lürzer’s Archive for the recognition.

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Stockland Martel launches boutique stock site

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We’re thrilled to announce that Stockland Martel Archives, a boutique stock site that we’ve been developing, is now live. As you know, we’re fortunate to represent some of the best-known commercial, advertising, documentary, and fine-art photographers in the world, and with Stockland Martel Archives, we’ll be able to offer you carefully curated selections that exemplify [...]

Photography is dead. Discuss.

Rhubarb-Rhubarb, a U.K. agency that trains and develops photographers, is hosting a debate on Thursday that will explore what photography is now. The title they’ve chosen for this panel discussion is “Photography Is Dead,” echoing French painter Paul Delaroche, who in 1850 asserted that “from today, painting is dead” because this thing called photography had [...]

The makings of good food photography

I recently had the chance to have coffee and talk shop with food stylist Victoria Granof, who was a longtime collaborator of Irving Penn’s and who has also worked a fair amount with our own Craig Cutler. Earlier this year, before I signed on to write the Stockland Martel blog, I did a story for [...]