Her most controversial photograph, Bath House, New York City, 1975, part of a swimsuit photoshoot for Vogue Magazine, featured five models, slouching and stretching in an abandoned bathhouse. Following their tutelage, she began her career in photography, primarily working for fashion magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Mirabella, though she didn’t consider herself a fashion photographer. While working for McCardell, she met Diana Vreeland, then the famed editor of Harper’s Bazaar their introduction eventually led to Turbeville being offered a job as an editor at the magazine.ĭisinterested in the editorial work she was doing at Harper’s Bazaar and later at Mademoiselle, she purchased a Pentax camera in the 1960s and began experimenting with photography, ultimately enrolling in a workshop taught by photographer Richard Avedon and art director Marvin Israel in 1966. Born in Stoneham Massachusetts in 1932, Turbeville moved to New York following her schooling with an intent to work in the theater, but was instead discovered by the American fashion designer Claire McCardell, who hired Turbeville as an assistant and house model. Deborah Turbeville, an American artist and photographer, transformed the world of fashion photography through her groundbreaking, dreamlike, and melancholic imagery.
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