Stewart CohenDirector/DP/Photographer, Stewart Cohen Pictures · Director/DP/Photographer @ Stewart Cohen Pictures | Film Production

Stewart on Taking Over SuperStock

31 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Stewart Cohen explains why he was attracted to acquiring Superstock, highlighting the Devaney Collection—a trove of 1950s‑60s New York advertising photographs. He describes using this vintage archive as the foundational layer of Superstock’s broader image library, which also includes contemporary works and a sizable fine‑art segment. Cohen notes that the fine‑art collection is actively licensed to books, schools, and other users, emphasizing the strong demand for high‑quality imagery across educational and publishing markets.

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One of the things, one of the reasons I was really interested in taking over Superstock when I did is they owned a collection called the Devaney Collection, which was all advertising photography from New York from the '50s and '60s. Okay. And it was, it's great. I mean, I can share some of that with you. It is fantastic. And I mean, it just harkens back to a different time that was before us. I use that as the bedrock of the collection. So we have contemporary, we have vintage, and we have another big section of fine art collection that we license, and a lot of books and schools. And you'd be amazed at how many people license fine art imagery.