Peter Turnley
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Peter N. Turnley (born June 22, 1955)
Turnley's photographs have been used on the cover of Newsweek more than forty times.[2] He and his twin brother, the photographer David C. Turnley, were the subjects of a biographical 60 Minutes piece Double Exposure,[4] which aired during their exhibition, In Times of War and Peace at New York's International Center of Photography in 1996.
Education
Turnley is a graduate of the
Photography
Turnley first began photographing in 1972 in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. With his twin brother David, he spent a year photographing the life of the inner-city, working-class McClellan Street. This work was published in 2008 by Indiana University Press. In 1975, the Office of Economic Opportunity of the State of California hired Turnley to produce a photographic documentary on poverty in California.
After an initial sojourn of eight months in Paris in 1975 to 1976, Turnley moved there in 1978.[6] He began working as a printer at the photography lab, Picto. At the same time, he began photographing street scenes in Paris, which resulted in the book Parisians (2001). He began working as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in 1981 and with Doisneau's introduction to Raymond Grosset, the director of the Rapho photo agency, Turnley became a member of Rapho, working alongside many of the photographers of the French school of humanist photography. He became associated with the Black Star photo agency and was mentored by its director Howard Chapnick.[7] As Paris-based contract photographer for Newsweek from 1984 to 2001, Turnley's photographs appeared on its cover 43 times. In 2003, he began producing eight-page quarterly photo-essays for Harper's Magazine.[8]
Turnley has photographed world conflicts including the
In 2015, Turnley was the first American artist since the Cuban revolution to be given a major exposition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana.[10]
In 2020, Turnley created a visual diary in New York City and Paris, France, which resulted in a book "A New York-Paris Visual Diary: The Human Face of Covid-19. A selection of this work was a headline exhibition at the International Photojournalism Festival Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France in 2020.[11]
Teaching and workshops
During the fall of 2001 Turnley was a Teaching Fellow for Professor
He teaches workshops on street photography and the photo-essay in Paris, New York City, and Venice.
Publications
- 1989: Beijing Spring. Stuart, Tabori & Chang, New York.
- 1990: Moments of Revolution. Stuart, Tabori & Chang, New York.
- 1996: In Times of War and Peace. Abbeville Press, New York.
- 2000: Parisians. Abbeville Press, New York.
- 2007: McClellan Street. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
- 2013: French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris
- 2015: Cuba – A Grace of Spirit.
- 2020: A New York-Paris Visual Diary: The Human Face of Covid-19
Exhibitions
- The Content of Our Character, Weatherhead Gallery, University of St Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2009.[5]
- Momentos de la Condición Humana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Habana, 2015.
Awards
- Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad[5]
- Prix Visa d'Or News Nominated - Visa pour l'Image Festival 2020, Perpignan, France
References
- ^ a b David and Peter Turnley; Double Exposures in Parallel Lives: The Other Side of the Lens, nytimes.com, retrieved February 21, 2014
- ^ a b "CBC: Beyond Words - The Photographers - Peter Turnley". July 17, 2006. Archived from the original on July 17, 2006. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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- ^ "welcome to peterturnley.com". June 4, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2004. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b c d "Peter Turnley's The Content of Our Character Exhibit[permanent dead link]", University of Saint Francis, June 5, 2009. Accessed September 7, 2009.
- ^ a b "Prizes Bring Double Exposure for Globe-Trotting News Photographer Twins Peter and David Turnley – Vol. 33 No. 18". People.com. May 7, 1990. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ Chapnick, Howard (January 1, 1994). Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism. University of Missouri Press. p. 141 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "NPPA: Peter Turnley's Photo-Essays To Debut In Harper's Magazine". Archived from the original on August 4, 2004. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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- ^ "A Visa pour l'image, Peter Turnley capte les regards derrière les masques". Le Monde.fr. August 29, 2020.