Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures

20/10/2011. Book Rizzoli [LON] UK 06/10/2011
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From internationally acclaimed photographer Deborah Turbeville comes the first book on her highly influential visionary avant-garde fashion photography. Deborah Turbeville has been described as the anti-Helmut Newton. Where Newton’s pictures are vital with physicality and sexual power, Turbeville’s are studies in immobility, surreal works shot as though through misted glass. When discussing her favourite city St. Petersburg, Turbeville describes a place "where history has come to a halt, like a streetcar immobilised in ice"; words that can also be seen to resonate through her photography.

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Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures.

For this latest monograph, Rizzoli have pulled together the fashion pictures, which include famous stories for Vogue such as Bathhouse from 1975, Women in the Woods from 1978 and Women in Furs from 1984. However the treasures of this collection are the lesser-known works; pages from magazine Maquillage, hitherto unpublished work for Chanel, portraits of Italian royalty, the Venice Carnival, designer Selina Blow and Russian ballerinas. There is dark humour too – an eerie spread of five models in Mrs Rochester-esque attitudes, complete with ragged gowns and dishevelled hair in an attic, are discovered to be wearing five wedding dresses rejected by Princess Diana.

Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures. / Written by Deborah Turbeville, Introduction by Franca Sozzani.

October, 2011

Format: Hardcover
Category: Photography - Fashion
Publisher: Rizzoli
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3479-2