![]() She spent a whole winter there and presented her work in a book, Unseen Versailles, in 1981.” ( via) Fortunately, thanks to Jackie Kennedy Onassis – an admirer and a friend! – she was finally granted permission to photograph the estate during its renovation. ![]() She discovered the Château de Versailles, but was refused access for a fashion shoot. “In the late 1970s, Turbeville was living in Paris. I had never seen until tonight, though, her 1981 series Unseen Versailles: ![]() ![]() I have long been familiar with the haunting romanticism of Deborah Turbeville’s fashion photography, and have often lost myself in their eerie atmospheres and spectral moods– elegant ghost stories, and hazy hallucinations of antique decadence, beloved and perfect, all. ![]()
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