Background
Turner Browne was born in 1949 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
Photographer author cinematographer
Turner Browne was born in 1949 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
Browne attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1968-69. As a photographer he is self-taught.
A freelance photographer since 1969, Browne has also worked in the Hollywood film industry since 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he concentrated on a still photography documentation of the rural Cajuns of Louisiana. In the year 1975-76, he specialized in mural printing, including work from the original negatives of the John Kobal Collection, resulting in the traveling exhibit "Dreams for Sale"; these images include the work of Hollywood glamour photographers like Hurrell, Bull, Willinger, etc.
Among his motion picture credits are director of photography on Only Once in a Lifetime (1978, produced by Sierra Madre Motion Picture Company of Los Angeles) and cameraman on The New Klan, a documentary aired on the national Public Broadcasting System in 1978.
Working in medium and large formats, Browne's personal work was mainly black-and- white. He concentrated on documentary, landscapes and found objects.
A member of the Friends of Photography and the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.