Deborah Lou Turbeville (July 6, 1932 -- October 24, 2013) was an American fashion photographer. She is widely credited with adding a darker, more brooding element to fashion photography, beginning in the early 1970s. Turbeville is one of just three photographers, together with Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, who essentially changed fashion photo shoots from traditional, well-lit images into something much more edgy. She was the only woman and only American among this trio. In 2009, Women’s Wear Daily wrote t