Deborah Turbeville

Deborah Turbeville (1931–2013) is a renowned master of fashion photography whose career shows a successful combination of artistic and commercial photography. Her works appeared regularly in Vogue, Mirabella, Zoom, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, her clients included Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Ungaro, Valentino, Vera Wang. Her personal exhibitions have been shown in Centre Pompidou in Paris, Sonnabend Gallery (New York), various spaces in Rome, Mexico, Tokyo, and in the Russian Museum, in 1997. Once a student of Avedon, Turbeville was then among those who founded the International Centre for Photography in New York. In 2005 she was presented with the ICP Infinity Award for Applied Photography, and by that time several books of her photography had been already issued. Deborah regularly teached photography, both in and outside the U.S. In 2002, DeborahTurbeville conducted a workshop for Baltic Photography School (division of the NCP) which resulted in an exhibition entitled ‘Strange City’, in Rumyantsev mansion.