Front cover of Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower first edition (1978).
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Interior spread from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower featuring her atmospheric imagery.
Interior pages displaying Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and shadowed compositions.
Interior pages displaying Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and shadowed compositions.
Double-page spread from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower, highlighting her innovative use of texture, shadow, and distressed imagery to create a dark, poetic visual narrative.
Photograph from Wallflower (1978) displaying Turbeville’s moody, cinematic aesthetic—women posed in abandoned interiors with delicate light and characteristic emotional ambiguity.
Interior spread of Wallflower (1978) by Deborah Turbeville showing her signature ethereal, grainy atmosphere—soft focus, muted tones, and haunting female figures captured in decaying architectural spaces.
Page detail from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower featuring blurred silhouettes and dreamlike composition, exemplifying her groundbreaking approach to fashion and portrait photography in the 1970s
Front cover of Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower first edition (1978).
Interior spread from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower featuring her atmospheric imagery.
Interior pages displaying Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and shadowed compositions.
Interior pages displaying Turbeville’s signature dreamlike and shadowed compositions.
Double-page spread from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower, highlighting her innovative use of texture, shadow, and distressed imagery to create a dark, poetic visual narrative.
Photograph from Wallflower (1978) displaying Turbeville’s moody, cinematic aesthetic—women posed in abandoned interiors with delicate light and characteristic emotional ambiguity.
Interior spread of Wallflower (1978) by Deborah Turbeville showing her signature ethereal, grainy atmosphere—soft focus, muted tones, and haunting female figures captured in decaying architectural spaces.
Page detail from Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower featuring blurred silhouettes and dreamlike composition, exemplifying her groundbreaking approach to fashion and portrait photography in the 1970s

WALLFLOWER

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Published by: Simon & Schuster, 1978 (First Edition)
Hardcover with dust jacket, 148 pages
31 × 24 cm
Language: English
Condition: Very Good. Light signs of handling on cover and dust jacket, but overall clean, tight, and well-preserved for its age.

Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower stands as one of the most influential and atmospheric photography books of the 20th century. Published in 1978, this first edition captures Turbeville’s unmistakable vision dreamlike, mysterious, and steeped in a quiet, cinematic melancholy.

Across 148 pages, Turbeville presents a world of fragmented rooms, fading interiors, and ethereal female figures rendered with her signature grain, softness, and shadow. Wallflower helped redefine fashion and fine art photography, shifting the medium toward mood, narrative, and psychological depth. Each image feels suspended in time, occupying a delicate space between memory and fiction.

A cornerstone photobook for collectors, historians, and admirers of transformative visual storytelling rare to find in such solid condition.

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Front cover of Deborah Turbeville’s Wallflower first edition (1978).

WALLFLOWER

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Close-up detail from the 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub — Christiane F.’s voice suspended in plastic and light.

Traces of devotion, arranged for a moment.

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Front cover of the 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub by Christiane F., Playhouse Records 2003, Germany. Reverse sleeve of Christiane F. / Christiana’s 12-inch vinyl Wunderbar / Health Dub — Playhouse Records, 2003.

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