Deborah Turbeville

Photocollage

Nathalie Herschdorfer, Vince Aletti, Felix Hoffman , Carla Sozzani

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
12 October 2023

Individual photographers

Timeless, evocative and hauntingly beautiful: a retrospective monograph by a truly innovative image maker whose female gaze transformed fashion photography.

American photographer Deborah Turbeville defies classification. She belongs to no school or movement. Her unique visual signature has been recognizable since her emergence as a major talent in the 1970s. Her images are evocative, difficult to date at first glance, and seem dreamlike to our 21st-century eyes. Turbeville stands apart from her male contemporaries, whose hard-edged, highly sexualized photographs of women now seem to be of their time in comparison with Turbeville's very different representation of beauty.

This book focuses on the area of Turbeville's practice where her genius as an artist can be found: photocollage. In contrast to her contemporaries in fashion photography, she was deliberately playful with her images: xeroxing, cutting, scraping and pinning prints together, writing in the margins and creating narrative sequences. Her work is located far from single, glossy images. It inhabits a liminal zone between art and commerce.

Built upon extensive research in the Deborah Turbeville archive, the work shown spans commercial and personal projects, with many images published for the first time. With texts by Vince Aletti, Anna Tellgren and Felix Hoffmann, this book brings into the spotlight the ways in which Turbeville redefined fashion photography, moving away from the sexual provocation and stereotypes assigned by male photographers to an idea of femininity on her terms. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will be an essential publication with modern relevance for all with a passion for fashion photography.

By: Nathalie Herschdorfer
Text by: Vince Aletti, Felix Hoffman, Carla Sozzani, Anna Tellgren
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 300mm,
Weight: 1.880kg
ISBN: 9780500026212
ISBN 10: 0500026211
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Carla Sozzani on Deborah Turbeville: interview by Nathalie Herschdorfer The Photographs, interspersed with text by Nathalie Herschdorfer

Nathalie Herschdorfer is Director of Photo Elysee-Museum of Photography in Lausanne. Her previous books include Coming into Fashion, Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past and Body: The Photography Book. Deborah Turbeville (1934-2013) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her fashion photography featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Nova and The New York Times and for fashion labels including Commes des Garcons, Guy Laroche and Charles Jordan. Her archive is held by The MUUS Collection.

Reviews for Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage

"Seeks to place Turbeville...among the finest photographers of her generation... Her photographs [are] eerily and ethereally beautiful.-- ""Shelf Awareness (starred review)"" (11/24/2023 12:00:00 AM) The darkly compelling vision of a singular fashion photographer.-- ""Vogue"" (12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)"