Corporate and Portraiture

Stuart Wilber, 73, poses for a portrait in Seattle, Wash., on Monday, September 19, 2011. Wilber, who learned that Microsoft was among hundreds of companies whose products could be purchased through a new service that passed a share of its commission to the Christian charity of the buyer’s choice — charities including stridently anti-gay groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. He posted an online petition calling on Microsoft to quit the arrangement, and Microsoft did so within a day. (Photo by Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times)

Timothy Jones poses for a portrait at the Starbucks Building in Seattle, Wash. Jones and his team are responsible for the music heard in the Starbucks throughout the country.
  
Tom Schmitt, CEO of FedEx Global Supply Chain Services, poses for a portrait at the corporate offices in Memphis, Tenn., on Wednesday, January 7, 2008.
  
     
  
Billy Reid poses for a portrait in his newly opened store in Nashville, Tenn.
  
Chef Jeremy Barlow poses for a portrait in his restaurant Tayst on Thursday, April 17, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn.
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
Howard "Butch" Eley, Chief Executive of Infrastructure Corporation of America, center, and David Rader, Executive Vice President, right, and Darrell Massengale, Chief Financial Officer, left, meet in their conference room on Friday, March 7, 2008.
     
  
U.S. Attorney Edward M. Yarbrough poses for a portrait in his office in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, November 13, 2008.
  
  
Peter Boal, director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, with dancers Mara Vinson and Karel Cruz in Seattle, Wash., on Tuesday, December 29, 2009.
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
Adam Young scrapes the paint off one of their houses in Bessemer, Ala. on Thursday, March 22, 2007. The Youngs have purchased three homes with the intent to restore them and sell them to other families.