Peter Turnley b.1955 PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 1976-1999, silver gelatin prints (6), printed later, image sizes approx 360mm x 240mm, signed lower margin in pen and inscribed in pencil on the verso   Turnley’s photographs have been featured in Newsweek, Harper’s, Stern, Paris Match, Geo, LIFE, National Geographic, The London Sunday Times, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, New Yorker, and DoubleTake. Peter Turnley worked on contract for the Newsweek Magazine from 1986-2001 and as a contributing editor/photographer with Harper’s Magazine from 2003-2007. His work is frequently published in photo essay form in magazines, on major television networks such as CNN, ABC’s “Nightline”, and in online publications, such as The Online Photographer. Turnley’s photographs have been published the world over and have won many international awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition. Since 1975, Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. Turnley was born in the U.S. but has lived more than half his life in Paris. His tender, humorous, and sensual view of Paris, offers a distinct contrast to the stark realities depicted in his photojournalism. He has photographed the extensively the life of Paris these past 35 years. Turnley worked as the assistant to the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau in Paris in the early 1980’s.