Deborah Turbeville made this picture at the Wolf Dummy Form Factory in 1974 as part of an advertising campaign for shoe designer Charles Jourdan. She featured costumes by then up-and-coming designer Betsey Johnson, who also served as the shoot’s stylist.
In the 1970s a handful of female fashion and advertising pho-tographers explored ideas about femininity and sensuality that were previously absent from fashion magazines and thus met with resistance. Turbeville, who began her career as a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, stood apart within this group for her overt rejection of styles that privileged male fantasies—her way of responding to the sexual revolution.
