“Turbeville is of a generation of fashion photographers, alongside Richard Avedon and Guy Bourdin, who focused on the subject in their photographs as opposed to the clothes they are wearing, and who followed their own distinct conceptual agenda, rather than that of the stylist.”–Jules Wright, Tainted Beauty, Nowness.com
Concurrent with the launch of Fashion Week and Fashion’s Night Out: Tainted Beauty, an exhibition of photography by Deborah Turbeville, will open at the Donna Karen flagship boutique in London on September 8. Turbeville is reknowned for collaborations with Karen, Karl Lagerfeld and Comme des Garcons; assignments for Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, and Italian, French, Russian, British, and American Vogue, (including the 1975 Bathhouse series); and a commission by Jackie Onassis to photograph the unseen Versailles.
In an age in which every artist is a brand, DNA terms defining Turbeville’s work might include: tainted otherworldly haunted visionary individualistic avant-garde extreme enigmatic sensuous sexual storied subdued softly focused composed elegant melancholy distinctive fine art boundary-blurring narrative broken tableaux lost characters.
Turbeville’s latest book, The Fashion Pictures, will be released in October. Until then:
Concurrent with the launch of Fashion Week and Fashion’s Night Out: Tainted Beauty, an exhibition of photography by Deborah Turbeville, will open at the Donna Karen flagship boutique in London on September 8. Turbeville is reknowned for collaborations with Karen, Karl Lagerfeld and Comme des Garcons; assignments for Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, and Italian, French, Russian, British, and American Vogue, (including the 1975 Bathhouse series); and a commission by Jackie Onassis to photograph the unseen Versailles.
In an age in which every artist is a brand, DNA terms defining Turbeville’s work might include: tainted otherworldly haunted visionary individualistic avant-garde extreme enigmatic sensuous sexual storied subdued softly focused composed elegant melancholy distinctive fine art boundary-blurring narrative broken tableaux lost characters.
Turbeville’s latest book, The Fashion Pictures, will be released in October. Until then:
Visit Fashion’s Tainted Beauty at Nowness.com.
Read about in her work Bazaar and the Haute 100 Update.
Pre-order The Fashion Pictures on Amazon.
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