Deborah Turbeville - Photographer

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New York Magazine - November 29, 1982
"A Backward Glance"
Model: Audrey Matson, Karen McWilliams
Photographer: Deborah Turbeville
Hair: Gerard Bollei
Makeup: Sophie Levy



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There’s a little article on The Guardian today about an upcoming book about her collages. Can’t properly post the full text while in transit but here.

 

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The big picture: the otherworldly scenes of the great Deborah Turbeville

The renowned fashion photographer creates a mood of ‘haunted neoclassicism’ in this image shot near Paris in the 80s

Deborah Turbeville’s photographs first appeared in Vogue in 1975, when she was already 42. Her singular, intimate style – her models, it was noted, always seemed “locked in their solitude”, oblivious to the camera – was subsequently a fixture in fashion magazines until her death in 2013. This image from 1985 features the models Anh Duong and Marie-Sophie wearing the clothes of Emanuel Ungaro, but that doesn’t explain the half of it. Turbeville, characteristically, appears to have chanced upon a scene of impossibly dusty decadence. Her two otherworldly figures are set in dreamlike relation to each other. Marie-Sophie sits staring into the past like a nude by Ingres, while Duong faces glassily forward, apparently contemplating visions, her arm hanging over the edge of the shrouded chaise, in limp homage to Jacques Louis-David’s The Death of Marat.

Turbeville, who was American, was drawn to ancien-regime Europe. She had three years earlier been granted permission to create a photographic portrait of the palace of Versailles, and her architectural pictures dwelled on neglected marble in empty courtyards. That mood of lost splendour inflected much of her work; she liked to say that she always “wanted to hear a clock ticking” in her pictures. A new book examining her adventures in photo collage, which includes this image, unpicks her “haunted neoclassicism” and her gift for making evocative narratives of single images. Looked at together her pictures find a language for the longings to which all fashion imagery aspires: stills from seize-the-day life.

In talking about her style, Turbeville sometimes referenced the impact of early and Nouvelle Vague cinema on her ideas for scenes. This picture was a literal homage to that influence. The photograph was taken at the Chateau de Raray, 30 miles north of Paris, which had been the low-lit setting for Jean Cocteau’s 1946 reimagining of Beauty and the Beast.

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US Vogue March 1977
Sonia Rykiel for Dayton's Oval Room
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Model Unknown


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US Vogue April 1984
Kathryn Conover S/S 84
Photo Debroah Turbeville
Models Elisabetta Ramella, Nathalie Gabriell


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US Vogue April 1984
La Marca S/S 84
Photo Deborah Turbeville


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US Vogue April 1984
Wayne Clark S/S 84
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Models Attila Von Somogyi, Carmen Dell'Orefice


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US Vogue March 1982
Icinoo for The Silk Farm
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Models Unknown


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US Vogue May 1975
There's More To a Bathing Suit Than Meets the Eye...
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Editor Polly Mellen
Models Chris Royer, Yasmine Guenacia, Sara Kapp, Sunny Redmond, Marcie Turner, Jaan Stephens
Hair François of Suga
Makeup Sandra Linter


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US Vogue February 1975
Roberta Camerino
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Model Nina Gaidarova


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Valentino Boutique Spring/Summer 1978
Photographer: Deborah Turbeville



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Harper's Bazaar August 1972
"Nomad Knits - Off to See the World"
Photographer: Deborah Turbeville
Models: Anjelica Huston, Pam Suthern



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Harper's Bazaar May 1981
"Fragrance: The Collectible Art"
Photographer: Deborah Turbeville
Model: Unknown



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US Vanity Fair February 1984
Venice's Carnevale
Photo Essay Deborah Turbeville


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US Vanity Fair December 1984
A Grim Fairytale
Photo Deborah Turbeville
Editor Micahel Roberts
Models Lucy Ferry, Dmian Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser, Cecila Chancellor, Christina Loder, Lady Vivian Haig


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