Peter Turnley Print Offer II

"Glance"

This week, TOP is pleased to be able to offer, once again, a selection of fine prints of our friend Peter Turnley's pictures of Paris.

[UPDATE, Friday 4/6/12, 6:00: Sale has ended.]

These prints are available year-round, to all, for a standard price of $1,200 for a print on 16x20" paper, which is a reasonable price for fine prints from a well-established living photographer. TOP is able to offer somewhat smaller prints for much lower prices because we take orders in advance and then produce the work specifically to fulfill the orders we get.

Because of this, as regular readers no doubt know, we only take orders for five days. When the orders close, that's it—the printing and shipping materials are purchased in bulk and the work starts. We really don't take more orders once the sale closes.

"Wheelbarrow"

I've assigned one-word titles to the pictures for ease in ordering. These aren't Peter's formal titles for the pictures, just tags to help me identify them.

These are traditional fine prints on fiber-base silver-gelatin paper made from film negatives, taken with Leicas or Nikons. The prints will be made, once again, by Voja Mitrovic, who was Henri Cartier-Bresson's favored printer for more than 30 years and has been the printer for a select list of the world's best photojournalistic-style photographers, including Josef Koudelka and Sebastiao Salgado as well as the Turnley brothers.

"Kids"

This sale differs from our last one in that anyone ordering three prints or more can choose an additional one for free. And because of this, we're including one print that was offered in the last sale—Peter's signature image of the rooftop view of the bridges on the Seine with the Eiffel Tower in the distance. Last time, many purchasers bought two of these, persumably to give one away as a gift. We hope to make that even easier for you this time.

"Rooftops"

This picture is surely one of the most recognizable pictures of Paris in the world—in poster form, it has been a huge all-time bestseller. But relatively few people own an original, signed print of it.

The prints are exceptionally lovely. I own several (including my favorite, the one we're calling "wheelbarrow") and am looking forward to adding a couple more to my collection this time.

The price for these prints is $395 for one, $375 for the second one, and $225 for the third (and fourth). The prints are the standard European print size of 30x40 centimeters (~12x16 inches) (image area slightly smaller). The prints are signed on the front by Peter and on the back by Peter and Voja. The editions are unlimited.

One print $395
Two prints $770
Four prints (three plus one additional fourth print for free) $995
(Each additional print is $225 more.)

"News"

To order....

[Ordering information removed; print offer ended 6 p.m. Central Time 4/6/12]

The prints are made in Paris but order fulfillment is done from New York, so U.S. shipping is $15 and for all other countries it's $25. I'm very sorry, but prints cannot be shipped from Europe.

The sale will close on the afternoon of Friday, April 6th.

"Lovers"

Thank you very much for considering our sale and for reading TOP!

Mike

ADDENDUM: Some people in the Comments seem to be worried about European delivery, customs, duties, etc. We did not have any problems with that last time. Packages originated as USPS international mail and most were delivered within ten days. They were declared as documents and value was accurately stated as the replacement cost for us, which was the price of materials. We can't guarantee anything absolutely, but based on our actual experience last time, European buyers don't need to be concerned about delivery issues. —MJ

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Comments

[fizzy]

Seeing these pictures had an odd effect on me. I don't want to buy them (although they are lovely) -- they make me want to go to Paris and take pictures.

[Ed Hawco]

I hate to so blatantly plug myself, but whenever I see Peter Turnley's "Lovers" I think of one of my own shots from Rome in 1998:
http://www.blork.org/mondaymorning/index.php?showimage=210

...but it's not like I'll ever get Voja Mitrovic to make a print of that, so I might just have to partake of this print sale. (Confirmation to come...)

[Jesper Lauritsen]

I have of course ordered a print, but it really is a shame that you will not ship from Europe. It is not the extra shipping cost that is the problem. The problem is that for something coming from outside EU, Danish customs will add 30-40% taxes plus a handling fee plus let it lay around in customs for weeks...
I am pretty sure it is the same in many EU countries.
Let me say it this way: If you ship from France (without any other taxes) I will buy an extra print!

[Roger Bradbury]

@ Mike: "tree sloth"

A tree sloth was making his way through the jungle when he was mugged by a gang of marauding snails. He went to the jungle police, and they asked him if he could identify his attackers.
"No, it all happened so fast!" he replied. : ]

[Zeeman]

My goodness. The onscreen previews alone are already gorgeous, I can only imagine how the prints will look like. I particularly like the one with the man reading the news.

Alas, the prints are beyond my college student's budget. I'll be back when I finally have a decent income, I promise.

In the mean time, keep up the great work, and may you always be blessed with good light!

[Mikkelsen]

Congratulations on organising a second sale of Voja Mitrovic's marvellous prints of Peter's unique photographic work. I wish you all the best in delivering many of these stunning works of art to as wide an audience as possible.

I have produced black and white prints in the traditional darkroom since the 1970s but I stopped some years ago once I had convinced myself that I could produce better prints with my current film capture, scanning, photoshop-tweaking and inkjet printing process.

This was until I first experienced one of Voja's prints of Peter's work close up. You may be able to appreciate essential aspects of the qualities of these photographs from the web representations available here on TOP but nothing can prepare you for the experience of handling and viewing one of these magnificent prints.

The only thing holding me back from re-opening the wet darkroom is my sober realisation that I would never be able to produce anything like this so I am sticking to my hybrid process.

I feel very fortunate to own several of these Peter Turnley prints. They always attract immediate attention from new visitors and I often find myself stopping in front of one just to take a few moments to be influenced by the beauty and then move on feeling happy and optimistic - often with a smile on my face.

[David Bostedo]

Just wanted to say thanks! To Mike, Peter, and Voja... It will be an honor to own one of these.

[ctein]

Dear Mike and Peter,

I managed to resist the last sale, because, well, the selection didn't quite appeal to me enough. But this time I find myself wanting five. Sigh, there goes the profit from an unexpected sale I made this week...

I'm going in for 3+1!

Now I gotta decide which four.

pax / profligate Ctein

[Thingo]

I joined in last time.
I won't miss this one for quids!
Just deciding which one... or maybe...

This is so exciting. Thanks Mike and Peter.

[Bojidar Dimitrov]

One more vote for "a shame for not shipping from Europe". Just like Jesper I would like to order 4 prints, but am very hesitant because of customs fees and complicated handling.

Heck, if I have to, I'll take care of the distribution within the EU for TOP.

[Lars Jansen]

Thanks Mike and Peter for another round. I started to look really hard at my bank account to squeeze those dollars out of it but with duty and tax (and handling) it's still more then I can manage unfortunately.
Problem of course is that if you would send out from France you will have to pay taxes there anyway.

Good luck with the sale.

[John Brewton]

Somehow I had gathered from a previous post that Peter was working on a new book and that the offering would include some selections from the forthcoming work. I was disappointed to see mere selections from "Parisians" which I have. So while none of my favorites from that book have ever been offered, I'm still considering getting at least one to see what all the fuss is about.

[Roger Bradbury]

Just in case you are wondering, "tree sloth? what is he on about?", about my previous comment, Mike referred to himself as a tree sloth in a previous version of his post.

Cruelly, he has removed the reference without telling me and has made me look like a fool!

Not that's hard to do... ; ]

Dammit, I wish I had £250 to spend on a print of "Rooftops"

[Andre]

It looks like I may be on an all Ramen diet for the next week or two, but I'm tremendously excited to see my favorite shot from the last print sale make another appearance this time around. Thanks to Mike, Peter and Voja for giving me a second chance!

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Rooftops, or Rooftops and Kids, or Rooftops and Kids and Lovers and Glance? (Or sanity...not looking good for sanity.)

[Patrick Perez]

I'm pretty poor, but I pulled the trigger on one each. If it will help others, the way I rationalized it is thusly: Spending $1450 on camera gear wouldn't get me 6 great prints.

Patrick

[James]

*sigh* .... pay the bills or buy the photo I've been craving. You know, in a real sense I want one not only because of the image but because I want to see what Voja can do.

Well, someday down the road maybe I can pay a vastly inflated sum to buy rooftops off of one of you guys/gals.