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”
