{"id":9648,"date":"2017-09-25T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2017-09-23T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T03:23:28","slug":"peter-turner-1934-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/peter-turner-1934-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Turner 1934 – 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Giraffe in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, Africa by Pete Turner 1964<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. My thanks to George Dunbar who emailed the sad news that Pete Turner died recently. His passing was noted with this insightful article in the New York Times<\/a>. A New Yorker, Mr Turner was famous for his saturated colour photographs.<\/p>\n

While his name may be unfamiliar to most readers, his photographs may well be familiar. Some of his photographs became cover shots for the LP records of the 1950s – 1980s era (give or take).<\/p>\n

According to the NYT article, Turner began processing colour at the tender age of \u00a014 – about 1948. In those days, the best one could achieve was a reasonable print or slide. In Canada, I processed Anscochrome and Ferraniacolour a decade later. Turner’s work was truly inspired and impressive. He was noted for his colour assignments world wide.<\/p>\n

The NYT article begins, “When the photographer Pete Turner was on assignment in Amboseli National Park <\/a>in Kenya in 1964, a lone giraffe galloped across the empty plain before him, and he captured it in all its solitude<\/a>, its neck rising above the horizon.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Turner\u2019s resulting transparency was overexposed, but he saved it by rephotographing it and using filters to transform it into a spectacular and eerie new image.<\/p>\n

“The giraffe now appeared to be part of a surreal painting, running across a purplish veld beneath a red sky.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. My thanks to George Dunbar who emailed the sad news that Pete Turner died recently. His passing was noted with this insightful article in the New York Times. A New Yorker, Mr Turner was famous for his saturated colour … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,705],"tags":[1431,315,15,561,1430,1432],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","category-people","category-photos","tag-africa","tag-color","tag-colour","tag-nyt","tag-pete-turner","tag-saturated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}