Deborah Turbeville Quotes

• I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Eerie, Atmosphere, Location

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• In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.

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  Fashion, Want, Suggestions

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• I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

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  Fashion, World, Photograph

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• In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am 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.

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  People, Style, Fascination

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• I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.

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  Littles, Made, Made It

  "Deborah Turbeville’s Unseen Versailles" by Dan Thawley, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2012.

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• A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

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  Girl, Art, Mistake

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