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”

 

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

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.

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

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

The Ghost in the Cave

The dead ancestors of King Venceslas of Poland appear, in immoderate costume, to Bougrelas in a mountain cave where he hides after fleeing from the heinous crime, the killing of his father, King Venceslas, by Pere Ubu, Mere Ubu and their henchman, Captain Bordure.

She was stunned

She was stunned when which time then she saw saying maxim adage proverb aphorism apothegm dictum by-word sententious precept axiom the diamond rhombus lozenge encrusted Rollie wrapped around about round encircling encompassing surrounding on every side of my wrist.

Thank you Rebecca Holliday for an email containing a wonderful selection of words - literature of the highest order.

A Panegyric on the Occasion of Lewis Ambler's Birthday

Lewis Ambler, a modification of patriotism, passion, art, ocean liners and great hotels.

Lewis Ambler is the supreme expression of live spontaneity, rhythmic movement, and creative transformational processes.

The fundamental temper of Lewis Ambler tends toward an existential ideal that can probably never be reached.

Lewis Ambler says, in perfect French, “Il n’y a pas de solution parce qu’il n’y a pas de problème”.

Chaos, time, and the natural world are all a function of Lewis Ambler.

Lewis Ambler, a stream of fire which coils round the earth.
Lewis Ambler is first and foremost an activity and not a theory.

Lewis Ambler is produced when an object moves or vibrates.

Lewis Ambler, the Wrath of Infinite Power.
Innovation and ritualism is pure Lewis Ambler.

Lewis Ambler declares, “Emptiness itself is an object, but how to integrate emptiness into everyday life?”

In Lyon in the spring of 1895, Lewis Ambler played a simple practical joke using water.

Lewis Ambler confounds a liberal paradigm of the cyclical decline and fall of empires.

Lewis Ambler, a geotectonic spectacle where light intensifies colour.
Lewis Ambler can be found in cataleptic magma.
Lewis Ambler, a flower in poetic language.
Lewis Ambler, the orthography of magma, the palaeology of stones.
Lewis Ambler, proof of extraterrestrial visitations.

Lewis Ambler’s days are marked by silence, the necessary climate for contemplation.
The physical dimensions of Lewis Ambler are very close to the dimensions of Apollo.

A small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of Lewis Ambler on Thursdays.

Lewis Ambler laments the condition of the world and from this lament emerges utopian thought.

If Lewis Ambler did not dream reality would collapse.

In so far as Lewis Ambler is also a kind of "window on eternity", he conveys the knowledge of a higher system of the world.

From 1963 to 1968, Lewis Ambler worked out a system of socio-historical totality and commented, “Change encourages the impulse to build".