Category Archives: Bill and Maureen

Do we see an upturn in automotive advertising, perhaps?

There’s no question that automotive advertising spending stalled with the recession, but recently there have been signs that this category is picking up speed. We’re not talking a full recovery, but progress is being made. “Ad spending for cars and credit cards has come roaring back, helping drive 8.8% growth in 2010 U.S. spending for [...]

Maureen and Katya on press in Germany with SMart Book 2012

. Maureen and Katya Arsenieva, the photo editor at Stockland Martel, have been in Ditzingen, Germany, this week, on press with our new photo annual, SMart Book 2012. (See pics below.) The book—which is being printed by GZD—is coming out in late January, and we’re planning a big launch party for it in February. The [...]

We’re at 500,000 views — and counting!

The Stockland Martel blog has just reached a major milestone: Yesterday, it crossed over the half-million mark. Our blog has been viewed 500,000 times since we launched it in April 2009 (more than 501,000 times, actually, as of this writing). And our monthly views have spiked from an average of 299 that first April to [...]

Star power: 14 great celebrity portraits

. Bill, Maureen, and the rest of the team at Stockland Martel hosted our annual Hollywood East Cocktail Party a couple of weeks ago, as a way to personally thank our clients in the entertainment industry here on the East Coast. The event, which was attended by photo editors, art buyers, and creatives, was held [...]

New work: Art Streiber shoots Ginnifer Goodwin fashion story for Boston Common magazine

Most people think of celebrity portraits when they think of Art Streiber, but early in his career, from ’89 to ’93, he was a co-bureau chief for W and WWD in Milan. He shot everything: portraits, travel, events, food, still lifes, and a lot of fashion—both in the studio and on location in Rome, Venice, [...]

Farewell, Walter Lürzer

It is with heavy hearts that we report the news that Walter Lürzer passed away yesterday. Walter, as you know, was the founder of the highly respected advertising arbiter Lürzer’s Archive, as well a seminal ad-agency figure, having cofounded TBWA Frankfurt in 1972; established the agency Lürzer, Conrad (which merged with Leo Burnett in 1980); [...]

Stockland Martel at the Lucies (photos)

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 [...]

Stockland Martel goes to London for Nadav Kander’s exhibition opening at Flowers gallery (photos)

. Last Thursday, “Yangtze—The Long River,” an exhibition featuring previously unseen photographs from Nadav Kander’s Prix Pictet–winning series, opened at Flowers gallery in London. The show, which will be on view through November 13, coincides with the publication of a comprehensive monograph issued by German book publisher Hatje Cantz. Tomorrow, Flowers will be hosting a [...]

Last day for Cartier-Bresson at the Museum of Modern Art

If you live in New York and haven’t seen the brilliant “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, get yourself over there today before 5:30 pm—it’s the last day of the show. Bill and Maureen and I went to see the exhibition last month. Here’s a little iPhone snap I took [...]

Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

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