Dark, shadowy, dreamy and surreal, Deborah Turbeville's photographs seduce us into the possibility that fashion is a lot more than an industry that perpetuates the objectification of women. This presentation shows how the celebrated photographer created space for women's homoerotic fantasies and the complex sexual multiplicity that femininity encompasses but is often repressed and hidden from view. 

In this talk, curator and writer Kimberly Kay Lamm begins with the Bathhouse sequence, taken in New York City's Asser Levy Public Bathhouse for American Vogue in 1975, demonstrating the way Turbeville challenged and reshaped fashion photography as an aesthetic practice to rewrite entrenched ideas of femininity. 

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Biography

Kimberly Lamm is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Her scholarship brings together the study of Anglophone literature, visual culture and psychoanalytic feminism. She is the author of Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art and Writing and the forthcoming British Film Insitute Classics book devoted to Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s feminist avant-garde film Riddles of the Sphinx (1977). She has a particular interest in aesthetic practices such as fashion that challenge the devaluation of femininity.

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