Donald Peter Turner (May 30, 1934 – September 18, 2017) was an American photographer.
In 1986, 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.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and work
- 1.1 Pete Turner African Journey
- 1.2 Marisa Turner - Who's Gonna Kiss That Man? - Hansa - 74321 30683 2
- 1.3 (CI) Scott Turner Hockey Card 1991-92 Peterborough Petes 3 Scott Turner
- 1.4 American Warfighter DVD
- 1.5 Joe Turner and Pete Johnson
- 1.6 KC & the Sunshine Band, Sam & Dave, Who, Ike & Tina Turner..
- 1.7 Whos Gonna Kiss That Man - Marisa Turner CDS
- 1.8 The Color of Jazz
- 1.9 The Van Gogh Job
- 1.10 Ghost Dad
Life and work
Critic A. D. Coleman described the exploit of Turner as having “A dramatist’s sense of event, intense and saturated coloration, and a certain if indescribable otherness are omnipotent in Turner’s images”.
He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1956 along later classmates Bruce Davidson and Jerry Uelsmann.
Photo District News voted him as one of the 20 most influential photographers of whatever time and in 1981 the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) awarded him its Outstanding Achievement in Photography honor.
His photographs are in the long-lasting collections of many major museums, including the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The George Eastman House in Rochester is the depository of Turner’s life’s produce an effect and where his retrospective exhibit, “Pete Turner: Empowered by Color”, opened in 2007.
Turner died September 18, 2017, at his home on Long Island, New York.
Last update 2021-08-06