![]() ![]() ![]() When Jodi and I met with her we were invited to her spacious upper west side New York Apartment for tea. The old salons, bath-houses and chateaus selected as backdrops for her images made her work all the more intriguing. Turbeville brought viewers into her mystic and misty world which seemed more connected to the 19th century Beaux Art movement than to a world of privilege, wealth and up-to-the moment fashion that was the vision of other modern fashion photographers. Though her aesthetic was sometimes labeled as dark, she was truly a romantic and independent image maker. In her New York Times Obituary, Margalit Fox wrote that, “She was the only woman, and the only American in the triumvirate (the others were Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin) that by wide critical consensus changed fashion photography from sedate to shocking.” A Mystic and Misty World She created a remarkable body of work and pointedly disregarded the standard ideas of beauty, engagement and fashion. When she died in 2013 the art world lost an exceptionally unique and prescient voice. A Unique Force in Contemporary Fashion Photographyĭeborah Turbeville was a unique force and talent in contemporary fashion photography. ![]()
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