Turbeville

Deborah Turbeville (1937). American photographer. She came into contact with the world of fashion as a model in the 1950s and, once her career ended, she attended seminars taught by Richard Avedon and Marvin Israel and worked as a design assistant for Claire McCardell, as a contributor to The Ladies Home Journal in the early 1960s, and as a fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar (1962-65) and Mademoiselle (1965-71). She was discovered as a photographer by Diana Vreeland, art director of Vogue, and in the 1970s she began her professional career working for the Italian and French editions of Vogue, for Marie Claire and for Nova. Features of her photography were blurring and monochromy, creamy soft colors, but also atmospheres charged with mystery in which the protagonists were alluring, sensual women, sometimes shameless, who seem to ignore the gazes of observers. One image was a group of models in a public bathroom, printed to great scandal by Vogue America in May 1975. She had many exhibitions in the United States and in Europe as well as many books: Maquillage in 1975, Wallflower in 1978, Unseen Versailles in 1981, Les amoureuses des temps passé in 1985.