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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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(image from venusbuzz.com):
Diana Vreeland, Editor-in-Chief
Vogue Magazine, 1963 – 1971
photo by Deborah Turbeville
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