blauvelt, NY
Biography:
Arthur Henry Gunther III
The photographer is a retired editor of the Editorial Pages, columnist and staff photographer of The Journal-News in Rockland County, New York, where he served with the newspaper for 42 years. He began his career in 1964 in the mailroom and newsroom, eventually working his way through various positions.
Gunther wrote more than 6,000 pieces for the newspaper, including about 2,500 weekly columns. In 2006, a collection of those essays was published by The Historical Society of Rockland under the title, “The Column Rule.” As a newspaper photographer, he took more than 8,000 pictures.
He continues to exhibit and sell photographs at various galleries and also publishes a weekly column at thecolumnrule.com and on blogspot.com.
A third-generation Rocklander, Gunther lives in Blauvelt with his wife Lillian, a librarian. They have two sons, Arthur 4th, a schoolteacher, and Andrew, an information technologist, and three
grandchildren.
Website: thecolumnrule.com
