Garry Gross

Garry Gross (November 6, 1937 – November 30, 2010) was an American fashion photographer who went on to specialize in dog portraiture. He faced serious controversy regarding photographs taken for a Playboy publication, which included nude images of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields.

Career Born in New York to a Jewish family, Gross began his career as a commercial photographer, apprenticing with photographers Francesco Scavullo and James Moore and studying with master photographers Lisette Model and Richard Avedon. His fashion and beauty photography has been featured in numerous fashion magazines over the years and his work has appeared on the covers of such magazines as GQ, Cosmopolitan, and New York Magazine. using that training to begin working with dogs and creating Fine Art style portraits. In ruling, the presiding Judge stated: "The issue on this appeal is whether an infant model may disaffirm a prior unrestricted consent executed on her behalf by her parent and maintain an action pursuant to section 51 of the Civil Rights Law against her photographer for republication of photographs of her. We hold that she may not." an artist famous for his "reproduction photography." Prince called his version "Spiritual America," after a 1923 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz that depicts the genitals of a workhorse. Although it had previously been shown in New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2007, eluding debate, "Spiritual America" was removed from the Tate Modern gallery exhibition called Pop Life: Art in a Material World in 2009 after protesters described the image as "obscene" and a "magnet for pedophiles".

Gross has stated that "The photo has been infamous from the day I took it and I intended it to be"

Death Gross died from cardiac arrest at his home in the New York City's Greenwich Village.