She creates those effects with the help of favorite actresses and models, largely unknown, acting as a repertory cast. Turbeville's vision is unorthodox-at once haunted and haunting. They remind the viewer, as one critic has written, of films they would have liked to have seen, and inspire comparisons to Luchino Visconti, Jean Cocteau, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Joel-Peter Witkin. Some 15 series, structured like short stories or novellas, encapsulate that unique sensibility and elegant aesthetic. Past Imperfect looks into the heart of the influential American photographer Deborah Turbeville's oeuvre, surveying her groundbreaking narrative work of 1974 through 1998, when she pioneered a look of antique decadence, using distressed film and prints to capture models as Miss Havishams in faded fin-de-siecle glory.
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