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2 unusual facts about Peter Turnley


Peter Turnley

He began working as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in 1981 and with Doisneau's introduction to Raymond Grosset, the director of the Rapho photo agency, Turnley became a member of Rapho, working alongside many of the photographers of the French school of humanistic photography such as Édouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau, Janine Niépce, Willy Ronis, Hans Sylvester, and Sabine Weiss.

In 1975, the Office of Economic Opportunity of the State of California hired Peter Turnley to produce a photographic documentary on poverty in California.



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