Talk:Pete Turner (photographer)

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I think an important aspect of Turners work not covered here of elsewhere are his contributions to stock photography. I'm just wrapping up a long piece on his early and commercial work that is also sourced and referenced.

When I started I no idea about much of his work. He photographed hundreds of scenes for postcards of upstate NY while at RIT. The photographs were sold on by Freelance Photographers guild (FPG) to companies in the Syracuse/Rochester area who printed and sold the postcards to retailers. Many, but not all the postcards carry Pete's name.

His work with FPG continued including his earliest commercial work for magazines, including Nation Geographic which published some of the color pictures he took on his Airstream Africa tour. The Airstream contract only required b&W. I have details of how FPG got started, who it got acquired by and when it got rolled into Getty Images. The same is also true for "The Image Bank", which was also referred to jokingly as the company that Pete built.

Unless anyone has any reason why not, I'm going to add a section about Pete and Stock Photography. Cathcam (talk) 16:52, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, has the section on albums outlived its useful purpose? It is incomplete and adding more without a better format will make it less readable. It would probably be simpler to note an approximation of the number of covers his work appeared on, note that his work appears uncredited on many more through his pictures that were made available via "The Image Bank", and then discuss some of the more significant, like the Stanley Turrentine "Sugar" album which one awards in 1971 for the use of pictures from Turners "Black Beauty" collection. A link could also be added to the references section for Pete's artist page on discogs which has pictures of most of his covers.Cathcam (talk) 17:08, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]