Legendary Photographer Deborah Turbeville Dies

RENOWNED conform photographer Deborah

Turbeville has died aged 81 after a conflict with lung cancer.

Known as a “anti-Helmut

Newton” for her proceed to conform photography, Turbeville

favoured plcae over a garments as a concentration of a image, often

overexposing and scratching a negatives to give a images a

sense of decay.

Having shot for magazines including American, French and

Italian Vogue, Turbeville’s many famous fire was the

1975 Bath House array for American Vogue -

a swimwear spread, shot in a bathhouse in New York, which

depicted models in a state of despondency and drew

comparisons to Auschwitz – that was reprised in 1984′s Steam

Room shoot.

“I find personalities, demeanour for engaging faces and do

pictures in locations revealing of a rest of a work,”

Turbeville told WWD in 2009. “I mix clothes,

people and place to make a story… we like strange

places.” 

Turbeville continued operative into her eighties, shooting

Valentino’s spring/summer and autumn/winter 2012 advertising

campaigns final year and edition her final book, Deborah

Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures, in 2011.

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Legendary Photographer Deborah Turbeville Dies