Celebrating Gosta Peterson
“From the Archive,” an exhibition of photographs by Gosta Peterson, a renowned fashion photographer, is on view at the Turn Gallery in Manhattan through March 22. The show includes groundbreaking black-and-white photographs from 1960 through 1980, among them his New York Times photographs of Twiggy, the iconic English model, and his “Fashion of the Times” cover photo of Naomi Sims, the first African-American to appear on the cover of an American magazine.
“From the Archive” also includes both famous and never-before-seen works from Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and GQ, among others.
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden in 1923 and arrived in New York City in 1948. He worked as an illustrator for Lord & Taylor until, having been given a camera as a gift, he taught himself photography. He began shooting for Mademoiselle in 1958 and never looked back.
In addition to their home in New York, Mr. Peterson and his wife, Pat Peterson, a former fashion editor for Mademoiselle and The New York Times, have owned a house on Windmill Lane in Amagansett since 1958. A Star feature in 2002 described the house as distinguished by, among other things, its front yard, where Mr. Peterson experimented, planting Queen Anne’s lace one year, wildflowers another, even sorghum grass, which he let grow to eight feet.
The exhibition opened on Jan. 24, with friends and family, including his children Annika Peterson, who is the director of Turn Gallery, and Jan Peterson, in attendance.