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On This Day: Pete Turner’s Birthday

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

https://www.ctproduced.com/on-this-day-pete-turners-birthday/

#AMCTI #CTI #PeteTurner

Obviously I'm biased, #PeteTurner worked hand-in-hand with #CreedTaylor from 1959 but Turner and his generation lifestyle / art pictures were almost the second original American art form between 1955 and at least 1978 - color, image, composure, layout, all just so good. Obvs #BobCiano contributed design concepts but Turner alone made the art of the photograph on album covers. Yes Francis Woolf, Chuck Stewart and many others, but they mostly did (great) pictures of people..

#photography #jazz

I've had two great interviews this weekend with Alen MacWeeney. Alen was the ying to Pete Turners yang for album covers at CTI/KUDU. Where #PeteTurner did abstract, brightly colored covers that rarely included the artist, Alen included detailed closely cropped covers of the artist with a muted palate.

I'll be writing it up for ctproduced.com in May. In the meantime here are three great pictures Alen took. #CTIrecords #Kudu #CreedTaylor #AlenMacWeeney #AlbumArt #Vinyl #photography #ctproduced

I've had two great interviews this weekend with Alen MacWeeney. Alen was the ying to Pete Turners yang for album covers at CTI/KUDU. Where #PeteTurner did abstract, brightly colored covers that rarely included the artist, Alen included detailed closely cropped covers of the artist with a muted palate.

I'll be writing it up for ctproduced.com in May. In the meantime here are three great pictures Alen took. #CTIrecords #Kudu #CreedTaylor #AlenMacWeeney #AlbumArt #Vinyl #photography #ctproduced