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”