Today marks Pete Turner’s birthday; he was born on May 30th, 1934. Pete lived until he was 83. Pete was hugely influential in the photography field, way beyond the beautiful photographs that Creed used for his album covers starting in 1959.
Pete was one of the people whose images drove the stock image revolution. In those days large catalogues of stock images were published and held by newspapers, marketing and ad agencies, and magazines. Some were fixed price, others priced by license.
Back in September 2024, “Doug H. G.” got in touch to discuss Pete and in his email included a link to a Youtube video he’d created of Turner’s pictures. I thought it would be worth providing a link here.
The video uses “Orinoco Flow” by the Celtic Woman, if that’s not your “cup of tea” and you have the bandwidth, you can open the Turner video and mute it, open another tab and stream the Wes Montgomery “Road Song” album. There are links to most popular streaming services.
The album and it’s title track were named after Pete Turner’s iconic picture not the over way around. You can use the embed below to find out more about Pete and the naming of “Road Song” and so much more.
Thanks to Doug for the emails and video, if you have any related Creed Taylor questions or would like to discuss aspect of his work you can leave a comment below or
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Hi Mark
Did you get my reply msg on here? I saw the other 1, my follow-up, on your other post but the 1st reply, the longer & more substantive 1, was on this post of yours but of course, I don’t see it here?
I’ll write it to you again, if necessary
Warm regards,
Doug
Yes, I did, it was sent via the contact form, those are genrally not published. If you’d like I can post it here on on the oter post.