On This Day: Pete Turner’s Birthday
Today marks Pete Turner's birthday; he was born on May 30th, 1934. Pete lived until he was 83. Pete was hugely influential in the photography field, way beyond the beautiful photographs that Creed used for his album covers starting in 1959.
Pete was one of the people whose images drove the stock image revolution. In those days large catalogues of stock images
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On This Day: Pete Turner’s Birthday
Today marks Pete Turner's birthday; he was born on May 30th, 1934. Pete lived until he was 83. Pete was hugely influential in the photography field, way beyond the beautiful photographs that Creed used for his album covers starting in 1959.
Pete was one of the people whose images drove the stock image revolution. In those days large catalogues of stock images
https://www.ctproduced.com/on-this-day-pete-turners-birthday/
Obviously I'm biased, #PeteTurner worked hand-in-hand with #CreedTaylor from 1959 but Turner and his generation lifestyle / art pictures were almost the second original American art form between 1955 and at least 1978 - color, image, composure, layout, all just so good. Obvs #BobCiano contributed design concepts but Turner alone made the art of the photograph on album covers. Yes Francis Woolf, Chuck Stewart and many others, but they mostly did (great) pictures of people..
Well I've been watching the PBS series ICON: Music Through The Lens. As much as I like the insight to music photography and photographers I find it unforgiveable that they can have a whole episode on vinyl covers and not have anything from #PeteTurner - I get it, the series wasn't made until after Pete's death, but really. His covers revolutionized the art of the album cover. Until Pete they'd be pretty boring and repetitious.
Thoughts? #jazz
I've had two great interviews this weekend with Alen MacWeeney. Alen was the ying to Pete Turners yang for album covers at CTI/KUDU. Where #PeteTurner did abstract, brightly colored covers that rarely included the artist, Alen included detailed closely cropped covers of the artist with a muted palate.
I'll be writing it up for ctproduced.com in May. In the meantime here are three great pictures Alen took. #CTIrecords #Kudu #CreedTaylor #AlenMacWeeney #AlbumArt #Vinyl #photography #ctproduced
A new exhibition of Pete Turner's legendary color photographs opens tomorrow in New York. Pete's pictures are great on CTI album covers, and when you see them online. They take on an entirely different life when you see large scale prints.
Bonus for #Jazztodon users, how many CTI album names were named after Pete Turner photographs?
My starter for you is #WesMontGomery "Road Song" - Creed named the album and title track after selecting the picture with #PeteTurner
https://www.ctproduced.com/pete-turner-the-color-of-light-exhibition/
