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Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller

2006135 pagesabout 2–3 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780500976616
  • 2011Presses du réel éditions · 135 pages · ENGISBN 9782840664604
  • 2012Steidl · ENGISBN 9783869303208
  • 2016Steidl · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9783958291874

One of the world's most sought-after photographers, Juergen Teller bridges the worlds of fashion, advertising, art, music and celebrity with an unmistakable mix of irony, honesty and anti-establishment flair. This magazine-style book, the catalogue to a major exhibition in his native Germany, captures Teller's visual universe to date. Employing portraiture, still-life and landscape photography, Teller's highly intuitive work exposes clichés, champions the everyday, and recasts traditional notions of beauty. Stripped of the glamor of the fashion world, his sitters often find themselves in unexpected, sometimes disturbing contexts where their true selves are revealed.Fascinated by his youth and upbringing, as well as by the role of the photographer today, autobiography is also a strong force in Teller's candid, often humorous, and inevitably endearing photos.

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