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John B Turner biography
Overview
John B Turner is an editor, publisher, writer and educator in the field of photography, as well as a photographer in his own right. He was highly influential on the development of contemporary New Zealand photography from the late 1960s through to the 1980s.
Beginnings
John Turner was born in Porirua in 1943. He became involved in photography through the Upper Hutt Camera Club and then, as a founder member in 1960, through the Lower Hutt Photographic Society. Professionally, he first worked as a compositor for the Government Printer from 1960 to 1965, then as a news photographer for a year in 1966–67. He was employed as photographer at the Dominion Museum (now incorporated into Te Papa) from 1967 to 1970.
Becoming an Influencer
Over these years Turner developed his personal photography, although promoting his own work came increasingly at the expense of his efforts in championing and encouraging the work of others. He wrote about photography, for example, in the magazines New Zealand Camera from 1962 and New Zealand Studio from 1967. At the Dominion Museum he came to appreciate the depth and value of New Zealand’s photographic heritage and unofficially curated three historical photography exhibitions for other institutions, most
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There's a wonderful article on the BBC website about the finding of an old suitcase full of photographs, which prove to be a glimpse of the past and an insight into a person.
Read the article here.
The photos are the work of John Turner, a property manager who died in 1987, and who loved taking photos, but never made a big thing of it to his family. It was only when he died that his talent was discovered, with images of London from the 1930s to the 50s, and the ordinary people and places of Soho and the street markets.
John seems to have had a need to have a creative outlet - there was a catalogue from the first surrealist exhibition in the 1920s in London in his possessions when he died. did he long to be a bohemian artist? Take a look at both the Surrealist overtones and the humour of this shop window scene.
Bond Street, London, 1960 - John Turner
He certainly has an eye for the quirky and the spontaneuous, getting close to his subjects with his camera, in a way that suggests he was easy-going and non-confrontational, making them feel at ease and allowing them to be natural. It reminds me very much of the work of ordinary nanny-by-day, photographer-on-her-time-off, Vivian Maier.
A woman collecting for the PDSA