Pete Turner

Pete Turner is best described in the words of A.D. Coleman: “A dramatist's sense of event, intense and saturated coloration, and a distinct if indescribable otherness are omnipresent in Turner's images: they have been presented in magazines and books, on record jackets, billboards and posters, and as original, signed prints.”

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	Antonio Carlos Jobim: Stone Flower, archival pigment print 36" x 18", signed, open edition
	Color of Jazz/collage # 1: Canned Funk, archival pigment print 24" x 24", signed, limited edition of 15 prints.
	Outback, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Tamba 4: Samba Blim, 13 1/2" x 19", archival pigment print, signed, open edition
	Rite of Spring, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Summertime, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Road Song, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Wave, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Studio Triste, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, open edition
	Color of Jazz / collage # 2—Hot Lips, archival pigment print, 24" x 36", signed, limited edition of 15 prints.
	Sunflower/border collage, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, limited edition of 15 prints.
	Deodato: Prelude/border collage, archival pigment print, 13 1/2" x 19", signed, limited edition of 15 prints.
	Jim Hall: Concierto, archival pigment print, 12" x 12", signed, open edition
	Roland Hanna: Gershwin Carmichael Cats, archival pigment print, 12" x 12", signed, open edition
	Stanley Turrentine: Sugar, archival pigment print, 12" x 12", signed, open edition
	Color of Jazz/collage # 3—Steely Dan's Greatest Hits, archival pigment print, 24" x 24", signed, limited edition of 15 prints.
	Airto: Fingers, archival pigment print, 12" x 12", signed, open edition

Pete Turner was born in Albany, New York. An early interest in chemistry led him to a lifetime fascination for photography and a great affinity to color. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology.

In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Turner's most controversial image of the time, “The Giraffe”. The red giraffe illustrated his growing interest in treating color as a graphic element. Since then, Turner has relentlessly pursued his uncompromising thirst for bold color and composition to achieve his extraordinary vision. His work is exhibited worldwide. His photographs are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the MEP in Paris, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and ICP in New York. George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester is the depository of Turner’s life’s work and where he was most recently honored with a one-man show, “Pete Turner: Empowered by Color”. The exhibit is scheduled to travel through 2010.

Turner's passion for photography has brought him innumerable awards from various design groups and photography associations including “The Outstanding Achievement in Photography” award from the ASMP. In 1986, Harry Abrams published his first monograph Pete Turner Photographs. His second monograph, Pete Turner African Journey (Graphis, 2001), is the visual diary of Turner's adventure in Africa which began with his first journey in 1959 from Cape Town to Cairo. His latest book, The Color of Jazz, is a comprehensive collection of his memorable and provocative jazz album covers that have become legendary, (Rizzoli, 2006)