Deborah Turbeville : Photocollage

Deborah Turbeville
Comme des Garçons, Escalier dans Passage Vivienne, from the series Comme des Garçons, 1980
© Deborah Turbeville / MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville

Photocollage

3/16/2024 — 6/16/2024

As one of the few women in a profession dominated by men, Deborah Turbeville opted to follow a path that was diametrically opposed to that of her colleagues. She searched for models with faces that suggested a rich inner world. In many cases they were people who did not consider themselves to be models and needed some convincing before allowing themselves to be photographed. Turbeville then portrayed them as being lost in thought, in relaxed postures bordering on lethargy – nothing like the modern, sexy and self-assured women who were to be seen in other articles in the same fashion magazines. She wanted to look beyond the models’ outward appearance: ‘I go into a woman’s private world, where you never go,’ she once said.

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