Celebrated American fashion photographer

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Deborah Turbeville

died on Thursday, 24 October 2013.

She was 81 years old.

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Her talents were recognised as innovative

in execution and form.

 She worked with a variety of clients from

magazine editors  at

Vogue, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar

to designers/design houses such as

Karl  Lagerfeld, Comme de Garcons

and celebrity figures like the incomparable

Jacqueline Kennedy.

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During the mid 70s, she gained

international recognition for her

inventive,  bizarre and oft times unsettling images.

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Hers were visuals which told a narrative;

not of the fashion presented, per se

but of the people portrayed, the setting captured.

This perspective introduced a then avant garde

dimension to depicting fashion photographic images.

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When once the garments were of sole focus

and the models void of expression –

through the lens of Ms. Turbeville

the models,  the setting,  the mood,

 generated an emotive response.

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Her photos were  provocative,  broody,  pensive.

Her methods were unconventional:

purposely blurred figures, scratched surfaces.

The finished piece,  arresting:

beckoning/daring the viewer to take another look.

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Ms. Turbeville’s work has been featured

in museum exhibitions around the world.

Of singular quality, it initiated

a new aesthetic of  the

photographic arts as applied to fashion –

 of mystery,  of intrigue,

of  unsettling beauty.

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Deborah Turbeville

Her Art

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Diana Vreeland, Editor-in-Chief

Vogue Magazine,  1963 – 1971

photo by Deborah Turbeville

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