Jean Turco

Burano

2016

Born in 1948 in the French Alps, Jean Turco spent his adolescence in Chamonix Mont Blanc. He awarded a diploma in photography and made numerous images of high mountain. At the age of...

Born in 1948 in the French Alps, Jean Turco spent his adolescence in Chamonix Mont Blanc. He awarded a diploma in photography and made numerous images of high mountain. At the age of 20, he left "the valley" for Paris where he is going to exercise as a game an activity which fascinates him and will allow him to visit a lot of distant countries by taking in his luggage Leica IIIf and Hasselblad which share his life. He has so produced in Europe, in the United States or in Emirates and Sultanates of the Gulf, uncountable landscapes and portraits; his taste for these last ones asserting itself during journeys in India and in Pakistan. In 2000, he rethought his implication in the photography and decided to dedicate himself to it full-time. He abandoned then quite other activity, tidied up his inseparable IIIf and Hasselblad in a cupboard, took back his Sinar P 20x25 and Nikon-digital then burned symbolically and without mood, his negatives and archival to start all over again. Mainly intended for the exhibitions, he made more of seventy these last years, his photos concern since numerous subjects even if the portrait, the nude and the still life remain privileged. Except his personal works, except the writing of works and except the articles on the photography and workshop / studios which he runs in numerous European countries, Jean Turco works mainly on commission for private individuals or advertising agencies. He uses according to the use of the produced images everything kind of existing shot equipments but the Sinar P2, the chamber of size 8x10 inches (20x25 cm) big film photography format which he processes personally in his laboratory, became his favourite equipment. Besides the catalogs of his exhibitions, he publishes in the editions Pearson: "The photo of nude...

Born in 1948 in the French Alps, Jean Turco spent his adolescence in Chamonix Mont Blanc. He awarded a diploma in photography and made numerous images of high mountain. At the age of...

Born in 1948 in the French Alps, Jean Turco spent his adolescence in Chamonix Mont Blanc. He awarded a diploma in photography and made numerous images of high mountain. At the age of...

limited edition of 8.

from the series Jewish beauty; limited edition of 8.

Bubbles 01 - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 25 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and...

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a black float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes included. It is available in three sizes, 120 x 80 cm (47 x 31.5 inches unframed), 150 x 100 cm (59 x 39.5 inches unframed), 180 x 120 cm (71 x 47 inches unframed). After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (20 years as a textile stylist and 10 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels...

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a black float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes included. It is available in three sizes, 80 x 120 cm (31.5 x 47 inches unframed), 100 x 150 cm (39.5 x 59 inches unframed), 120 x 180 cm (47 x 71 inches unframed). After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (20 years as a textile stylist and 10 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels...

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a white float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes included. It is available in two sizes, 120 x 120 cm (47 x 47 inches unframed), and 140 x 140 cm(55 x55 inches unframed). After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (20 years as a textile stylist and 10 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels...

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a white float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes i...

These photographs are printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. They are part of a diptych, and are placed in a white float frame, placed two inches apart. They are a ...