Terry deRoy Gruber is an American photographer, author and filmmaker.

Early life

Terry Gruber’s mother,

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, was a professional artist. Growing up in Pittsburgh Pa., Gruber attended

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, during its second year of coeducation where he served as an editor-in-chief of ''The Vassarion'', the college’s yearbook. His position on the yearbook became national news when his freedom of speech was censored in 1975 by the College, before becoming reinstated.

Photography career

Terry Gruber is the founder of Gruber Photographers Inc, where he is leader of a team of photographers, and works in fine arts photography. Gruber also works as a banquet photographer and

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, and has served as the photographer for the weddings of public figures such as

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and

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; and

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and Katie Lee. The Bridal Council stated that Gruber was “one of the first reportage photographers to bring a fashionable, spirited eye to the … world of wedding photography”. Magazines that have published his photos include ''

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'', '' Town & Country'', and '' Vanity Fair''. He has also commented on trends in wedding photography in articles for newspapers including the ''

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''. In 2022 his work was shown as a part of the "2022 Alternative Processes" exhibition at the Soho Gallery. He often works with traditional banquet photography cameras original to the 1920s, made by the company Folmer and Schwing. Specifically, he told '' PetaPixel'' in 2022 that "For an indoor shot, I have a 14-inch (~350mm) and 16-inch (~400mm) threaded lens with a Packard shutter with a lemon which is an air squeeze black bulb or keeping the shutter open... For an outdoor shot with flashbulbs for fill light, I use a lens with a shutter — a 14-inch Goerz Dagor with a Copal shutter."

Film career

As a filmmaker, his 1989 work ''Not Just Any Flower'', made under thesis advisor

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while attending Columbia Film School, is in the permanent film collection of the

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in New York and won a Student Emmy Award for Best Comedy. In 1990 he worked as the still photographer on the film ''

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''.

Books

Books of photographs by Gruber include ''Working Cats'' (1979), ''Fat Cats'' (1981), and ''Cat High: The Yearbook'' (1984). ''Working Cats'' features cats who live in working environments, that were recruited from local owners for the book. Using his past experience with yearbooks Gruber created ''Cat High'' in 1984 as ''Paw Prints'', the yearbook of a cat high school in Paw Paw, a spoof on yearbooks that had senior cats (and one dog) pose as graduates with mortarboards and other outfits. The title was re-released by

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in 2015. His book ''Getting Married, 30 black and white postcards'' was published in 1996 by Merckendorf & Beamer.

References

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