Gleb Derujinsky was an American fashion photographer.
11 Facts About Gleb Derujinsky
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Gleb Derujinsky worked for Esquire, Look, Life, Glamour, Town and Country and The New York Times Magazine, before shooting extensively for Harper's Bazaar.
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Gleb Derujinsky was born in New York City in 1925, and named after his father Gleb W Derujinsky, an anti-communist White emigre descended from the Russian nobility and a successful sculptor.
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In 1942, Gleb Derujinsky became a corporal in the army and stayed until after the end of World War II.
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Gleb Derujinsky was retained as a freelance photographer, working alongside Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe for editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland and art director Alexey Brodovitch.
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Gleb Derujinsky freelanced for Look Magazine, Town and Country, The New York Times Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Esquire, Glamour, Seventeen, Life, and Good Housekeeping.
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Gleb Derujinsky married four models in his lifetime and had Andrea Gleb Derujinsky with his third wife and cover girl Ruth Neumann.
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In Durango, Gleb Derujinsky opened a jewelry studio, One of a Kind, making and designing his own pieces.
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Gleb Derujinsky turned his love of skiing into a career when he qualified as an instructor in nearby Purgatory and taught in the children's division for over a decade.
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Gleb Derujinsky earned an instructor's license as a glider pilot and was instrumental in starting the Durango Soaring Club at La Plata Airport, now known as Animas Air Park.
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Gleb Derujinsky flew sailplanes in cross-country competitions, and in the late sixties and early seventies, he was one of the top ten sailplane pilots in the country.