Doug Menuez
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Doug Menuez is an American photographer. His career encompasses photojournalism, documentary, commercial, and commissioned photography. He has traveled to the North Pole, the Amazon, Vietnam, Africa, Dubai, Japan, and other regions of the world.
“I know how to tell a story, but there’s a deeper thing I’m trying to get to now that can’t be expressed with a caption.”
. They moved, again, to Long Island where his father continued working as an organizer. His mother counseled conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War
. He studied art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University, graduating from SFSU with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism. He worked as a photojournalist from 1979 to the middle of the 1990s. From then, until 2004, he managed his own commercial photography studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2004, he moved to New York with his wife and son. He and his wife reside in New York City.
and its development and launch of the computer NeXT Computer for Life magazine.At Apple Computer, Doug Menuez documented various projects, including the Apple Newton
from its early stages in 1992 to its launch in 1993. In 1992, Menuez published, with Markos Kounalakis, the book, Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton.
Between 1988 and 1995, Menuez documented the corporate life and the early development of PDF, and the development of Adobe Photoshop at Adobe Systems San Jose, California.
The 250,000 photographs Menuez shot, documenting Silicon Valley from 1986 to 2000, are now archived in the Douglas Menuez Photography Collection at Stanford University Library.
region, as told by Menuez in black and white and color photographs.
In 2007, Menuez visited sub-Saharan Africa to photograph the Children of Uganda, a 22-member dance troupe comprising children and young adults, orphaned by AIDS and civil war
. Published in 2008, with an introduction by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda is a photo-essay of the East African dance troupe.
Doug Menuez was a contributor to nine of the Day in the Life series of books. As one of one hundred photojournalists, Menuez visited Africa in 2002 to shoot for the book, A Day in the Life of Africa. Menuez’s portrait of a member of the famously camera-shy Maasai tribe of Tanzania is on the cover.
In the mid-1990s, Menuez took on commercial work with several global brands. In 2008, Emirates Airlines commissioned him to document the culture and the region of Dubai.
Menuez built a relationship with Nikon
founded on his first camera, the Nikkormat and its 50mm lens. He developed a professional relationship with Nikon to test their equipment. In 2008 they worked together, traveling in Vietnam to test the D700
.
: The Making of Newton. Photographs by Doug Menuez; introduction by Paul Saffo; text by Marcos Kounalakis. 176 p. : ill. Beyond Words
, Hillsboro (OR), 1993. ISBN#: 0941831949
Heaven, Earth, Tequila: un viaje al corazón de México. Photographs by Douglas Menuez; introduction by Victor Villaseñor; text by Doug Menuez with Andrés Zamudio. 141, [6] p. : ill. Waterside Press, Cardiff-by-the-Sea (CA), 2005. ISBN#: 0976680106
Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda. Photographs by Douglas Menuez; introduction by Dame Elizabeth Taylor; text by Rachel Scheier. 151 p. : ill. Beaufort Books, New York, 2008. ISBN#: 9780825305856
A Day in the Life of Africa. David Elliot Cohen
, Susan Wels and Lee Lieberman Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 288 p. : ill., maps. Tides Foundation, San Francisco, 2002. ISBN#: 0971802106
:15: Fifteen Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989. David Elliot Cohen
; Douglas Menuez and Ron Tussy, Editors. 119 p., [1] p. : ill. The Tides Foundation, San Francisco, 1989. ISBN#: 1559630418
Selected Artist’s Books:
Drag Meet: 1996. Sears Point Race Track, California. Amateur drag racers. Offset printing, edition of 500.
Facetime. 2006, Woodstock (NY). Various portraits, including: Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Weir, Sonia Braga, Martin Cruz Smith, Delroy Lindo, Natasha Richardson, and others. Indigo printing, edition of 100.
My Year in the Wilderness. 1996. A collection of images 1970-1996 taken in various locations, including: Brazil, Italy, France, China and Spain. Inkjet printing on watercolor paper. Edition of 10.
Solo exhibitions:
2007
Studio B Gallery, Woodstock, New York, Infinite City: A Walk Around New York
Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda.
Holbrook Art Center, Millbrook, New York, Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México.
2006
Innova Gallery Photokina: Cologne, Germany, Selected Works.
2005
Mexican Cultural Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Washington, D.C., Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México.
2004
Farmani Gallery: Los Angeles, California, Lucky Shots
1997
Digital Soup Gallery: Los Angeles, California, My Year in the Wilderness.
“I know how to tell a story, but there’s a deeper thing I’m trying to get to now that can’t be expressed with a caption.”
Biography
Menuez was born in Texas. His father moved the family to the south side of Chicago to work for the community organizer, Saul AlinskySaul Alinsky
Saul David Alinsky was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared in Playboy magazine to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left." He is often noted...
. They moved, again, to Long Island where his father continued working as an organizer. His mother counseled conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. He studied art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University, graduating from SFSU with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism. He worked as a photojournalist from 1979 to the middle of the 1990s. From then, until 2004, he managed his own commercial photography studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2004, he moved to New York with his wife and son. He and his wife reside in New York City.
Photojournalism
Upon graduating from SFSU in 1981, Menuez began an internship at The Washington Post. From then, until 1994, he accepted editorial assignments for magazines and newspapers, including: Time, Newsweek, Life magazine, and others. These assignments included the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine, the Olympics, the Amazon, the World Series, presidential campaigns, Silicon Valley, the AIDS crisis and other events.Silicon Valley
From 1986 to 1988, Doug Menuez documented Steve Jobs’ new company NeXT Inc.NeXT Computer
The NeXT Computer was a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by Steve Jobs' company NeXT from 1988 until 1990. It ran the Unix-based NeXTSTEP operating system. The NeXT Computer was packaged in a 1-foot die-cast magnesium cube-shaped case, which led to the machine being...
and its development and launch of the computer NeXT Computer for Life magazine.At Apple Computer, Doug Menuez documented various projects, including the Apple Newton
Apple Newton
The MessagePad was the first series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple for the Newton platform in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was done in Japan by the Sharp Corporation...
from its early stages in 1992 to its launch in 1993. In 1992, Menuez published, with Markos Kounalakis, the book, Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton.
Between 1988 and 1995, Menuez documented the corporate life and the early development of PDF, and the development of Adobe Photoshop at Adobe Systems San Jose, California.
The 250,000 photographs Menuez shot, documenting Silicon Valley from 1986 to 2000, are now archived in the Douglas Menuez Photography Collection at Stanford University Library.
Books
Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de Mexico is a portrait of Mexican culture through the traditions of growing, producing, and drinking Tequila in the JaliscoJalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
region, as told by Menuez in black and white and color photographs.
In 2007, Menuez visited sub-Saharan Africa to photograph the Children of Uganda, a 22-member dance troupe comprising children and young adults, orphaned by AIDS and civil war
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged since 1987 by the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, operating mainly in northern Uganda, but also in South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...
. Published in 2008, with an introduction by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda is a photo-essay of the East African dance troupe.
Doug Menuez was a contributor to nine of the Day in the Life series of books. As one of one hundred photojournalists, Menuez visited Africa in 2002 to shoot for the book, A Day in the Life of Africa. Menuez’s portrait of a member of the famously camera-shy Maasai tribe of Tanzania is on the cover.
In the mid-1990s, Menuez took on commercial work with several global brands. In 2008, Emirates Airlines commissioned him to document the culture and the region of Dubai.
Menuez built a relationship with Nikon
Nikon
, also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...
founded on his first camera, the Nikkormat and its 50mm lens. He developed a professional relationship with Nikon to test their equipment. In 2008 they worked together, traveling in Vietnam to test the D700
Nikon D700
The Nikon D700 is a professional grade full-frame digital single-lens reflex camera introduced by the Nikon Corporation in July 2008 and manufactured in Japan. It uses the same 12.1 megapixel "FX" CMOS image sensor as the Nikon D3, and is Nikon's second full-frame digital SLR camera...
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Published works
Defying GravityDefying Gravity
Defying Gravity may refer to:In film and television:* Defying Gravity , a 2009 drama television series* Defying Gravity * Defying Gravity , a 1997 independent gay-themed romantic dramaIn music...
: The Making of Newton. Photographs by Doug Menuez; introduction by Paul Saffo; text by Marcos Kounalakis. 176 p. : ill. Beyond Words
Beyond Words Publishing
Beyond Words Publishing is a book publishing company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1983, the company was unprofitable in its early years, though its works were award winning. The privately owned company focuses on non-fiction titles in the New Age genre, but began as a...
, Hillsboro (OR), 1993. ISBN#: 0941831949
Heaven, Earth, Tequila: un viaje al corazón de México. Photographs by Douglas Menuez; introduction by Victor Villaseñor; text by Doug Menuez with Andrés Zamudio. 141, [6] p. : ill. Waterside Press, Cardiff-by-the-Sea (CA), 2005. ISBN#: 0976680106
Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda. Photographs by Douglas Menuez; introduction by Dame Elizabeth Taylor; text by Rachel Scheier. 151 p. : ill. Beaufort Books, New York, 2008. ISBN#: 9780825305856
A Day in the Life of Africa. David Elliot Cohen
David Elliot Cohen
David Elliot Cohen is an American author and publisher who has, over a 30-year span, created more than 70 photography books. He is probably best known for the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 series of photography books that he co-created with Rick Smolan.Cohen created four New York...
, Susan Wels and Lee Lieberman Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 288 p. : ill., maps. Tides Foundation, San Francisco, 2002. ISBN#: 0971802106
:15: Fifteen Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989. David Elliot Cohen
David Elliot Cohen
David Elliot Cohen is an American author and publisher who has, over a 30-year span, created more than 70 photography books. He is probably best known for the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 series of photography books that he co-created with Rick Smolan.Cohen created four New York...
; Douglas Menuez and Ron Tussy, Editors. 119 p., [1] p. : ill. The Tides Foundation, San Francisco, 1989. ISBN#: 1559630418
Selected Artist’s Books:
Drag Meet: 1996. Sears Point Race Track, California. Amateur drag racers. Offset printing, edition of 500.
Facetime. 2006, Woodstock (NY). Various portraits, including: Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Weir, Sonia Braga, Martin Cruz Smith, Delroy Lindo, Natasha Richardson, and others. Indigo printing, edition of 100.
My Year in the Wilderness. 1996. A collection of images 1970-1996 taken in various locations, including: Brazil, Italy, France, China and Spain. Inkjet printing on watercolor paper. Edition of 10.
Solo exhibitions:
2007
Studio B Gallery, Woodstock, New York, Infinite City: A Walk Around New York
Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda.
Holbrook Art Center, Millbrook, New York, Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México.
2006
Innova Gallery Photokina: Cologne, Germany, Selected Works.
2005
Mexican Cultural Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Washington, D.C., Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México.
2004
Farmani Gallery: Los Angeles, California, Lucky Shots
1997
Digital Soup Gallery: Los Angeles, California, My Year in the Wilderness.