I don’t like mourning. Nor the news of blues. The death or illnesses are not dreamy at all in reality. But they are part of this petite world we know. We just cannot avoid them, I guess.
We rarely talk about these kinds of things here. Therefore, misslikey is so sad to share among the others the tragic news that Deborah Turbeville, one of the most influential female photographers passed away of lung cancer on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 76.
Deborah started her fashion career at the end of the 1950s as a fit model for Claire McCardell in New York. After working for mentioned designer as an assistant, she had a decade long career as editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Mademoiselle. Inspired by avant-garde cinema and influenced by great photographers of her time whom she worked with, Deborah at Mademoiselle started to photograph her own sittings. At the beginning of 1970s she fearlessly decided to pursue career as a freelance photographer.
As a self- taught she didn’t really understand photography techniques but she knew she likes soft focus and grainy films. From the thing that most of “professional photographers” would name as a mistake, such as models out of focus or scratches she created a really unique and dreamy photography style. ‘The imperfections in my pictures were the things people found charming’, she said in one interview.
