banquetcamera

Terry Gruber is probably one of the last portrait photographers in the United States to still use a 100-year-old, 12x20-inch banquet camera for its original purpose: capturing large groups in formal occasions.

The Eastman Kodak Company displayed Coloramas – giant backlit photos 18 feet high and 60 feet long – at Grand Central Terminal in New York City for 40 years starting in the 1950s. The photographer who made 55 of them was Neil Montanus.