Deborah Turbeville quotes
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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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“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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“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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“I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.”
-- Deborah TurbevilleSource : "Deborah Turbeville’s Unseen Versailles" by Dan Thawley, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2012.
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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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“I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.”
-- Deborah Turbeville
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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