photo of woman descending stairs — Deborah Turbeville, Comme des Garçons, Escalier dans Passage Vivienne, 1980 Courtesy of MUUS Collection ©Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

Deborah Turbeville

Photocollage

2.5 – 27.9 2026

Malmö

Opens in 139 days

Photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013) developed a personal and artistic style of fashion photography. Together with photographers such as Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon and Helmut Newton – all of whom emerged during the 1970s – she broke with the strong visual conventions of the time.

Over the years, she had commissions for several famous designers and many of the major fashion magazines. She travelled and worked between New York, Mexico, Paris and Saint Petersburg. The exhibition shows, among other things, her expressive photographs taken in carefully selected environments, as well as the unique photocollages she created.

Two parallel presentations are in dialogue with each other at Floor 2. Although there is, in some cases, a difference of up to fifty years between the works, the artists are united in their work with fashion and portrait photography. Both have developed an expression where mainly female subjects appear in images characterised by melancholy and timelessness.

The exhibition is organised by Moderna Museet, produced by Photo Elysée in collaboration with MUUS Collection.