Description
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.
Background
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.
Restrictions
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.