Terry deRoy Gruber | |
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| Alma mater | Vassar College |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Notable work | Working Cats Fat Cats Cat High: The Yearbook |
Terry deRoy Gruber is an American photographer, author and filmmaker.
Terry deRoy Gruber | |
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| Alma mater | Vassar College |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Notable work | Working Cats Fat Cats Cat High: The Yearbook |
Terry deRoy Gruber is an American photographer, author and filmmaker.
Terry Gruber’s mother, Aaronel deRoy Gruber, was a professional artist. [1] Growing up in Pittsburgh Pa., Gruber attended Vassar College, 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, [2] before becoming reinstated. [3]
Terry Gruber is the founder of Gruber Photographers Inc, where he is leader of a team of photographers, [4] and works in fine arts photography. [3] Gruber also works as a banquet photographer [5] and wedding photographer, [6] and has served as the photographer for the weddings of public figures such as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; [4] and Billy Joel and Katie Lee. [7] 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”. [8] Magazines that have published his photos include Vogue , Town & Country , and Vanity Fair . [4] He has also commented on trends in wedding photography in articles for newspapers including the New York Times . [9]
In 2022 his work was shown as a part of the "2022 Alternative Processes" exhibition at the Soho Gallery. [10] 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 [for 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." [11]
As a filmmaker, his 1989 work Not Just Any Flower, made under thesis advisor Martin Scorsese while attending Columbia Film School, is in the permanent film collection of the MoMA in New York [12] and won a Student Emmy Award for Best Comedy. [13] In 1990 he worked as the still photographer on the film Men of Respect . [14]
Books of photographs by Gruber include Working Cats (1979), Fat Cats (1981), and Cat High: The Yearbook (1984). [4] Working Cats features cats who live in working environments, that were recruited from local owners for the book. [15] 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 Chronicle Books in 2015. [16] His book Getting Married, 30 black and white postcards was published in 1996 by Merckendorf & Beamer.
