Karan will show a small selection of Turbeville’s highly influential and visionary avant-garde fashion photographs.

Long celebrated for her poetic grace and cinematic vision, Turbeville has produced fashion stories that bridge the boundaries between commercial fashion and fine art photography.

For Turbeville post production is an integral part of the photographic process. Tormenting her negatives with masking tape, scratches, and sepia stains, she consciously destroys the original shot, transforming it into a grainy and seemingly worn out image and creating the highly prized and widely collected work...

Turbeville rose to prominence with her 'Bathhouse' series, shot in 1975. These fashion photographs of languid, willowy, scantily clothed women were revolutionary - arresting and unsettling, Turbeville took the viewer into the core of a private chamber where the models seemed to be captives, aware of Turbeville, their photographer, and aware of us. With this body of controversial work, Turbeville's reputation as one of the finest contemporary fashion photographers was sealed. Her distinctive soft focus and pointillist style attracted impressive commissions from a request by Jackie Onassis to photograph the unseen Versailles, to photographic essays for Harper's Bazaar and W Magazine and shoots for Italian, French, Russian, British and American Vogue.

Deborah Turbeville's book The Fashion Pictures will be published by Rizzoli in October 2011.

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COMPETITION: Win a copy of the book 'Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures'

To win the book , send an email to katie@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box.

The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Deborah's iconic 'Bathhouse series' was shot for which publication?

A: 1) American Vogue .2) Harpers Bazaar .3) Vanity Fair .4) Tatler