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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2r29q382 No online items Guide to the Douglas Menuez Photography Collection MSS.PHOTO.0451 Finding aid prepared by Steven Mandeville-Gamble, Sean Quimby and Laura Williams Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives Stanford University Libraries. 557 Escondido Mall Stanford, California, 94305 Repository email: [email protected] © 2011 Guide to the Douglas Menuez MSS.PHOTO.0451 1 Photography Collection MSS.PHOTO.0451 Title: Douglas Menuez photography collection Identifier/Call Number: MSS.PHOTO.0451 Contributing Institution: Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 130.0 Linear feet(206 manuscript boxes, 104 flat boxes; 345,000 negatives/slides; 5 CD-ROMs) Date (inclusive): 1986-2006 Abstract: Contains photographic materials, including prints, contact sheets, negatives and slides, relating to Menuez's documentation of major Silicon Valley companies, as well as to fine art book projects, photo essays and photo shoots for newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, annual reports and other commissioned work. creator: Menuez, Doug Access Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. The following boxes containing negatives are CLOSED except to staff for duplication purposes: Series 3: Boxes 1-7 - Researchers should refer to the corresponding contact sheets in Series 1. Series 5: Boxes 28-49, 55 - Researchers should refer to the corresponding contact sheets in Series 5, Subseries 1. Jobs or Series 1, Subseries 1. Jobs (for Farallon). Series 6: Box 2 - Researchers should refer to the corresponding contact sheets in Series 6, Subseries 1 and 2. The following boxes containing electronic media are CLOSED to researchers: Series 4: Box 1 - Materials on CD-ROM may require 2-4 weeks for reformatting. Hard drive is CLOSED to researchers, but the contents are available via Stanford's Image Gallery (http://collections.stanford.edu/images/bin/page?forward=home). Series 8: Boxes CM-1 and CM-2 - Materials on CDs may require 2-4 weeks for reformatting. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Intellectual rights to the images reside with their creator, Douglas Menuez, or his heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Preferred Citation Douglas Menuez photography collection, Mss Photo 0451. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Acquisition Information Gift of Douglas Menuez, 2004 (Accession 2004-060); 2005 (Accession 2005-126); 2006 (Accession 2006-207); 2007 (Accession 2007-081); 2008 (Accessions 2008-118 and 2008-179); 2010 (Accession 2010-209); 2011 (Accession 2011-132) and 2012 (2012-123). Biography Award-winning documentary photographer Douglas Menuez was born in Texas in 1957. He studied art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University, and began his varied career shooting first for the Washington Post in 1981 followed by Time, Newsweek, Life, People, USA Today, Fortune Magazine and many other publications worldwide over the past twenty-five years. He’s covered major news stories including the famine in Ethiopia, the destruction of the Amazon, the AIDS crisis, drug wars, presidential campaigns, the Olympics, five Super Bowls and the World Series. His portraits of key figures range from Mother Teresa and Robert Redford, to President Clinton and Bill Gates. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Menuez pursued a long-term project documenting the rise of Silicon Valley behind the scenes. With unprecedented access to almost every major technology company, including Apple, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc and others, he covered digital pioneers such as Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, John Warnock, Bill Joy and John Doerr. Working first for Life Magazine, Menuez continued covering start-ups and established giants until the collapse of the dot.coms. This era was one of the most turbulent and significant--more jobs and wealth were created than ever before in human history. Guide to the Douglas Menuez MSS.PHOTO.0451 2 Photography Collection MSS.PHOTO.0451 Menuez' advertising campaigns for global brands include Chevrolet, Nikon, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Northwest Airlines, Coca Cola, Nokia, and Microsoft. His work has been honored by many organizations, including the Kelly Awards, The AOP London, The Cannes Festival, The One Show, The Art Director's Club of NY, Photo District News, The Epson Creativity Award, American Photography, Graphis, and Communication Arts. Menuez has had solo and group shows of his work in Milan, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and London. His most recent one-man shows include "Heaven, Earth, Tequila" at the Holbrook Arts Center, Millbrook, NY and "Transcendent Spirit" at Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles. Menuez' work has also been featured in nine of the bestselling Day in the Life books, including the cover of A Day in the Life of Africa in 2002. In 1989, Menuez co-produced with David Elliott Cohen 15 Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989, which raised over a half-million dollars for earthquake victims. In 1993, Menuez published Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton, Beyond Words Press, which was named one of the best 100 books of the past five years by Graphis. Recent books include Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México, Waterside Publishing, 2005, and Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda, Beaufort Books, NY, 2008, with all proceeds to help Ugandan AIDS orphans. Menuez is currently working on a new book and documentary film, Fearless Genius: A Visual Memoir of Silicon Valley. In 2009, Menuez formed Menuez Archive Projects, his exclusive boutique stock library featuring rights-managed images from his 30 years of award-winning imagery. Menuez currently lives in New York City with his wife and son. Text for Biographical Note from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Menuez www.menuez.com http://dougmenuez.com/ Scope and Content This collection consists of contact sheets, prints, slides, caption sheets, model releases, clippings, tear sheets, publications, portfolios and other material related to the photojournalism, documentary, commercial, and commissioned photography work of Doug Menuez. Accessions 2004-060 and 2005-126 comprise Series 1. Silicon Valley Documentary. Series 1 contains prints, slides and contact sheets and is divided into two principal subseries: Jobs and Edits. Jobs are identified by the project or job name ( 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Adobe Systems, Apple Corporation, Against All Odds-One Digital Day, Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, Newton, Next, Inc. and Farallon Computing). Subseries 2. Edits includes Silicon Valley and Reportage Selects removed from the Jobs subseries for editorial and other purposes. This collection does not have a Series 2. Negatives have been removed from Series 1. Jobs and filed in Series 3. Negatives (CLOSED except to staff for duplication purposes). Please note that although Series 3. Negatives mirrors the structure of Series 1, not every negative has a corresponding print, slide or contact sheet. The scope and content field for most folders contains a complete list of the contact/negative roll numbers assigned by Menuez and his staff. Series 4. Electronic Media consists of 5 CD-ROMs and 1 hard drive and is CLOSED to researchers. Please note that electronic media may take between 2-4 weeks for reformatting. The images contained in the hard drive are available online via Image Gallery (http://collections.stanford.edu/images/bin/page?forward=home). Series 5. Accessions 2006-207 and 2007-081 consists of contact sheets, slides, prints, negatives, caption sheets and notes and is arranged into 4 subseries: Jobs, Photo Shoots, Negatives and Tear Sheets. Subseries 1. Jobs is arranged alphabetically by company or project. The number of images in each project was provided by the donor and is an approximation only. Corresponding negatives have been removed for preservation purposes and can be found in Subseries 3. Negatives (CLOSED except to staff for duplication purposes). Subseries 2. Photo Shoots is arranged alphabetically by subject. Negatives have been removed and stored in flat boxes for preservation purposes and are OPEN to research. Many negatives do not correspond to contact sheets and are occasionally unnumbered. Not all rolls of negatives are complete. Guide to the Douglas Menuez MSS.PHOTO.0451 3 Photography Collection MSS.PHOTO.0451 Subseries 3. Negatives is CLOSED except to staff for duplication purposes. Researchers should refer to the corresponding contact sheets in Series 5, Subseries 1. Jobs and Series 1, Subseries 1. Jobs (for Farallon images). Subseries 4. Tear Sheets consists of 2 folders of tear sheets relating to commercial photography jobs. Contact sheets and negatives relating to Go Corporation and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers-Aspen comprise Series 6. Accession 2008-118. The negatives are CLOSED except to staff for duplication purposes. Series 7. Accession 2008-179 is arranged into 4 subseries: Jobs, Portfolio, Publications and Tear Sheets and Prints. Subseries 1. Jobs consists of prints, contact sheets, transparencies, negatives and related material, such as caption sheets, model releases and correspondence, related to Menuez's photography jobs. Many of the photographs were commissioned for