Friday 6 September 2013

Amicus ego te requiro


Pete Turner
Born: 3 February 1947 UK / Died: 1 August 2005 NZ
Creative Camera editor from 1971 to 1978 and from 1986 until 1991

Pete Turner, a dish with two eyes
Pete Turner, silencing silence
Pete Turner, the final end of every rational being is the image
Pete Turner, thinking is optimism

Pete Turner, seeing photographs as photographs
Pete Turner, the aesthetic of the object, the photograph reflecting and modifying light
Pete Turner, the aesthetic of the object, the photograph as composed of matter
Pete Turner, the aesthetic of the image, an optically focused rendering of reflected light
Pete Turner, the aesthetic of the image, a selected moment in a space/time continuum

Anticipatory Plagiarism, Fox Talbot quotes Pete Turner, “how charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper!”

Anticipatory Plagiarism, Alfred Stieglitz quotes Pete Turner, “Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession”.

Anticipatory Plagiarism, Walter Benjamin quotes Pete Turner, “The illiterates of the future will be the people who know nothing of photography”.

Anticipatory Plagiarism, Roland Barthes quotes Pete Turner, “Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks”.

Pete Turner trudged across that broad empty space

Pete Turner externalizes our thoughts
Pete Turner acknowledges darkness and the coming of light
Pete Turner, standing alone, friend, editor and curator

Pete Turner, photosensitive
Pete Turner, reflects, refracts
Pete Turner, dioptric pedagogue

Pete Turner “At its most potent, this medium, with all the connotations of absolute verity that we have come to associate with it, can be the means by which we are able to see the unseen”



 

Monday 12 August 2013

The view from Alfred Jarry's rooms


The view from Alfred Jarry's rooms in the alley he referred to as the Calvaire du Trucidé off the Boulevard de Port-Royal in Paris

Thursday 30 May 2013

Rusticated Column



Rustication assumed great importance in the mind of The Bloggist and so he builds a rusticated column in the Baroque style and considers the load bearing qualities of the structure.


Tuesday 29 January 2013

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, take a walk


The Bloggist quotes Brancusi, “L'art est surtout une fraude”.