She has a sketchbook quality to her work, like a work in progress, '..an open ended visual narative, rather than the completed version'. You will quite often find masking tape, torn prints and scratch marks a quality I find most intreging.
"I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie athmosphere, the oppressive mood...my muses are kafka, dostoyevsky, andree tarkovsky, the list is endless...i like my pictures best when there is a sense of tension, an unfinished narrative,...ambiguity... in these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. well, i am perverse, for that very reason i´m more drawn to it than ever. i have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer...it´s some people´s quarrel with my work and others´ fascination."
After working in magazine journalism, more specifically editor of Harpers Bazar in the 1960's, Deborah Turbeville found her way in to photography. She was not an overnight success but it was during the 80's she was at the height of her commercialism. She has been regularly published by Italian Vogue and the New York times.
Above is a shoot turbeville did for American Vogue in 1975, it was considered groundbreaking due to its penetrating insight into female sexuality.
Deborah turbeville's latest book 'Past Imperfections' is out now, you can also actually see her work in London at the new Wapping Project gallery at Bankside in February 2010 - see you there!
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