Title: Les Filles de Tourgueniev
Artist: Philippe Herbet
Editions Bessard
13.2 x 20.8 cm
84 pages
62 colour photographs
Foil-stamped hardcovers
Design by Thomas van der Vlis
Text by Philippe Herbet
English
Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies
Includes signed and numbered C-print
2015
ISBN: 979-10-91406-38-3
A few years ago, in Vladivostok, my friend Irina had spoken to me about – the Turgenev girls – with whom she felt very close. We had listed the peculiarities of today’s Turgenev girls: delicate manners, modest, refined, simple, romantic, living in their dreams, feminine, though with no make up, neither vulgar nor provocative, nor sexy, dressed with retro fashioned – even vintage – clothes, fond of literature, of classical music, playing an instrument, speaking several languages (often French and Italian), waltzing, blushing when they hear rude remarks, they have well established and strong moral principles, they are devoted, they come from several social classes, they are not part of any network …
- Philippe Herbet
A few years ago, in Vladivostok, my friend Irina had spoken to me about – the Turgenev girls – with whom she felt very close. We had listed the peculiarities of today’s Turgenev girls: delicate manners, modest, refined, simple, romantic, living in their dreams, feminine, though with no make up, neither vulgar nor provocative, nor sexy, dressed with retro fashioned – even vintage – clothes, fond of literature, of classical music, playing an instrument, speaking several languages (often French and Italian), waltzing, blushing when they hear rude remarks, they have well established and strong moral principles, they are devoted, they come from several social classes, they are not part of any network …
- Philippe Herbet