Podcast #39: Pete Turner

"My technique really was, that I would increase the saturation of the color by re-photographing the chrome -not with duping film- but with Kodachrome. So I'd be going Kodachrome to Kodachrome, which gave me an instant increase in the total contrast of things, and then using filters in drawers; it's like Hue and Saturation. I basically had a mini-Photoshop going for myself. A very mechanical Photoshop. A very primitive one. But nobody else was doing stuff like that." - Pete Turner This podcast was recorded on Thursday August 9th, 2007 in Wainscott, NY, in the home and studio of Pete Turner. Pete sits down with George to have a conversation about how he got started in photography and his early experiments with color. Along the way this legendary pioneer of color photography talks us through the creation of dozens of his "signature" photographs. This "video" podcast includes photographs by Pete Turner. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. (Note that if you do download from the iDisk, and NOT through an iTunes subscription, when viewing it on an iPod, you will access the video from the top-level Video menu (then "Movies" or "Video Podcasts".... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the top-level Music menu. If you can even find it under the Music menu, you will not see the photographs.) Finally, it's possible that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple Video iPods, and the photographs will not be seen. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems. All photographs @ Pete Turner. All Rights Reserved. This podcast, or any of it's contents, may not be reproduced in any form, without expressed written permission from Pete Turner.