Deborah Turbeville

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Deborah Turbeville (born July 6, 1932 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 24, 2013 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American photographer .

life and work

Turbeville was born in Boston. She grew up in England and moved to New York when she was 20. There she worked as an assistant and model for the fashion designer Claire McCardell , through whom she came in contact with Diana Vreeland . Turbeville has been taking photographs since that time. In 1963 she was hired as an editor and fashion photographer at Harper's Bazaar and worked with Diane Arbus , Richard Avedon and Hiro before devoting herself entirely to photography in 1972. In 1977 she exhibited at documenta 6 in Kassel. She lived in Mexico , New York City, Paris and St. Petersburg .

In 2005 she taught at the Smolny Institute on behalf of Bard College . Turbeville worked as a photographer for the fashion designers Bergdorf Goodman , Oscar de la Renta , Valentino Garavani and Vera Wang . Her photographs have been shown in galleries and museums and published in L'uomo , Vogue , Casa Vogue , Acne Paper , V Magazine and W Magazine . She photographed a series of portraits of Julia Roberts for The New York Times Magazine .

Awards

  • 2002: Scholarship from the Fulbright program for the Baltic School of Photography in St. Petersburg
  • 1998: Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for magazine photography
  • 1989: Fashion Group International Lifetime Award for fashion photography

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joyce Campbell 1981 Deborah Turbeville Turns An Antic Eye on Versailles and Discovers Ghosts . Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  2. ^ Pete Silverton: Professional Photographer 2009 . Retrieved March 20, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Turbeville, Deborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2013
Place of death Manhattan