Background
Pete Turner was born on May 30, 1934, in Albany, New York, United States. He was the son of Donald Edward and Ruth (Murray) Turner.
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Throughout his career, Turner has relentlessly pushed the medium of photography to achieve an extraordinary vision with an uncompromising thirst for bold color and composition. Yet Turner feels that "what really kept my name out there were these record covers." This book showcases 100 covers and their art in close to original size; many of the covers are rare and out-of-print, now collector's items, and connect to a who's who of musical legends -from Count Basie, John Coltrane, and Stan Getz, to Quincy Jones, Freddie Hubbard, and Steely Dan. Turner's covers set new standards for this medium and transformed albums into art objects, sought after both for the music they contain and the cover art they display.
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"It was night and there was moonlight and firelight when I first saw Africa..." Thus began his love affair with Africa. It was 1959 and Pete Turner, fresh out of the Army after graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology, was on his way to Capetown, South Africa, for an adventure that would change his life: a seven-month safari with the Airstream Trailer Company caravan for National Geographic. Africa remains a constant source of inspiration and renewal for him. A selection of the finest pictures from those adventures forms the basis for an African Journey.
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Pete Turner was born on May 30, 1934, in Albany, New York, United States. He was the son of Donald Edward and Ruth (Murray) Turner.
Pete Turner graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1956 along with classmates Bruce Davidson and Jerry Uelsmann.
In 1986, Pete Turner published his first monograph, Pete Turner Photographs (Abrams). His second book, Pete Turner African Journey (Graphis Inc., 2001), documents Turner's many adventures in Africa, beginning with his trek in 1959 from Cape Town to Cairo with Wally Byam's famous Airstream caravan. The Color of Jazz (Rizzoli, 2006) is a comprehensive collection of his provocative album covers for CTI Records among many others.
Pete Turner died on September 18, 2017, at his home on Long Island, New York.
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Critic A.D. Coleman described the work of Pete Turner as having "A dramatist's sense of an event, intense and saturated coloration, and a distinct if indescribable otherness is omnipresent in Turner's images".
Married Reine Marie Francoise Angeli, May 20, 1965.