Monday, 23 April 2012

Deborah Turbeville. Wallflower.

Untitled Document
London: Quartet, 1978. First Edition (UK). Large 4to. 90pp. Printed boards in photographic dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated in black & white and colour. Dustwrapper has a couple of closed tears to tail of spine and a bit of rubbing. Else very good. Un price-clipped. More images available on request. VG+ in Good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Phenomenal project by Turbeville, much underrated. Grainy, eerie and atmospheric, she protrays in her own words "women.. ..A little out of balance with their surroundings, waiting anxiously for the right person to find them, and thinking that perhaps they are out of their time. They move forward clutching their past about them, as if the ground of the present may fall away".