But suddenly, the publisher I work with asked me if I would do a fashion book. Nailing it in the book’s foreword, Franca Sozzani says, ‘Her pictures are not about fashion, even though she respects fashion.’ Behind the enigmatic photographs, we find a spritely 73-year-old eager to share the unconventional beauty she sees.ĭazed Digital: What motivated a book on your fashion photography after all these years?ĭeborah Turbeville: A few of the books I’ve done before have some of the fashion photographs but converted and reinvented, so I never really felt the need to do one. 'Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures' reveals what makes her one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers – despite a career spanning 40-odd years, she retains a strong conviction to her vision whether in its historic or artistic value, or its successful transcendence of time and classification. But from the New England-raised photographer comes another wonderful monograph essential in enriching one’s experience with her work, the slow burners that they are.

Turbeville here creates a charged atmosphere of mystery, ambiguity, and drama by combining elements of architecture, décor, and fashion with her sense of composition, often presenting women in groups, with no interaction between them.Ĭreate an account or log in to read more and see all pictures.One might wonder what defines a fashion picture to Deborah Turbeville – there’s seldom a clear distinction whether she’s shooting a Balenciaga collection or a Venetian family, an editorial for one of the Vogues or a masquerade in a Russian theatre. This distinct, intensely personal vision projects a sense of isolation, romanticism, and ambivalence that is haunting and disturbing.

The show is comprised of her black and white and color photographs. In subsequent years, she reworked this material using multiple printing methods, different papers and sizes, bleaching and darkening. She completed three major projects: Comme des Garçons, Women in the Wood, and The Glass House. This period was an important one for Deborah Turbeville. This exhibition currently on view at Staley Wise Gallery in New york presents Deborah Turbeville’s photographs from her Comme des Garçons photo shoot for Italian VOGUE in 1981.

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