A look at the music, musicians and albums produced by legendary producer Creed Taylor
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.
To celebrate the opening of the Pete Turner exhibition at the Bruce Silverstein gallery in New York [1]http://ctproduced.com/pete-turner-the-color-of-light-exhibition/, I thought it would be a good time to look at one of the most iconic of the A&M CTI cover photographs by Pete Turner. At the same time finally get around to adding an additional pressing of the Wave album, from […]
A new exhibition of Pete Turner’s amazing color pictures opens this week in New York City. Sadly I won’t be able to attend. If you can attend, I thoroughly recommend making time. As good as Pete’s pictures look on CTI album covers or online, they take you to another level when you see them at scale in real life. The […]
When writing “Pete Turner: Color, Content, Character” I saw an uptick in messages asking what happened to all the reproduction covers that were available for as little as $1.50, and the later $19.50 print on demand original prints? The answer is again, I have no idea, without access to CTI books or invoices we don’t know how popular these were, […]
I started this post on Memorial Day, May 30th 2022, which marked 87-years from Pete Turner’s birth in 1934. I imagined a quick tribute to a great photographer, who like many of his generation served in the Army. In 1972, I was an aspiring press photographer, age 14, with a future that would start as soon as I could legally […]
His death was announced by his long time partner and wife, Kristen Park on January 19th, via a Gofundme page setup for Claudio. It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my beloved husband, Claudio Roditi, late Friday evening, January 17, 2020. He was a loving husband and best friend to me for 45 years, although I […]