This book highlights Juergen Teller's collaboration with Dennis Freedman for W magazine and Barneys from 1999 to 2016. It showcases Teller's unique, anti-commercial style through iconic series featuring supermodels and creative shoots in unexpected locations, revealing his evolving artistic freedom and non-conformist approach to fashion photography.
Juergen Teller's revised edition showcases a curated selection of images from his original work, blending iconic advertising campaigns for luxury brands with fashion editorial photography. Featuring celebrities and models, Teller's subversive style redefines handbags as everyday items rather than mere luxury commodities. The book highlights the shift towards celebrity endorsement and includes playful contexts, like handbags on vegetables or taxidermy. Compact and tactile, this edition makes the fashion world more accessible to all, echoing the charm of the handbag itself.
Juergen Teller's latest work explores the "legs up" fertility myth through a playful lens, capturing intimate moments with his wife, Dovile Drizyte, as they embark on starting a family. Set in the enchanting Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, the project features evocative images across its 97 unique rooms, showcasing Drizyte's body in various forms. The work draws on themes of motherhood and family, enhanced by the hotel's art, creating a deeply personal narrative that reflects the couple's creative bond and the serendipity of their journey together.
The book captures the profound spirituality of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a site rich in history and religious significance. Juergen Teller, accompanied by his Lithuanian wife and her family, explores this sacred location through intimate photography, showcasing over 100,000 crucifixes and intricate sculptures. His work not only highlights the dense iconography but also serves as a personal tribute to influential figures in his life, including the late Vivienne Westwood and Suzanne Tarasieve, intertwining themes of loss and inspiration within the landscape.
Juergen Teller's work showcases a non-conformist style that blends seriousness with self-irony, reflecting his curiosity about life. Accompanying his major exhibitions in Paris and Milan, the book highlights Teller's storytelling through various genres, including portraiture and self-portraits. It explores themes of life's unpredictability, mourning the loss of collaborators like Vivienne Westwood, while also celebrating personal milestones such as the birth of his third child and his creative partnership with his wife, Dovile Drizyte.
Juergen Teller's work showcases over thirty years of fashion and editorial photography, distinguished by his unique blend of candidness and humor. This groundbreaking volume features a mix of photography and collage, offering an insightful and personal look into his artistic journey. Through his wry narrative, Teller invites readers to explore the intersection of his life experiences and creative expression in the world of fashion.
The visual memoir captures a spontaneous road trip taken by Harmony Korine, Juergen Teller, and William Eggleston, along with his son, from Memphis to Mississippi. Through a blend of candid portraits and evocative images of the American landscape, the book highlights their intimate connection and shared experiences. It features striking photographs of gas stations, abandoned towns, and everyday life, while also revisiting Eggleston's iconic motifs. Eggleston himself is prominently featured, showcasing his distinctive style and presence throughout the journey.
Exploring profound themes of life and death, this project showcases a poignant series that reflects on the loss of the photographer's uncle and step-father. It intertwines intimate images of his mother and Bavarian homeland with symbolic representations of fertility and vitality captured during a trip to Bhutan with his partner. The book emerges from a collaborative exhibition, offering a deeply personal narrative that connects personal grief with broader themes of existence and renewal.
“In 1999 I did a book called Go-Sees where girls came knocking on my door over a one-year period to show their portfolio and themselves. Recently, walking through Paris, I found myself thinking what work I would exhibit in my upcoming museum show in Naples. Handbags, I’m just gonna do a handbag book and a show. It felt like another Go-Sees book to me. Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph. I replied: ‘Actually, come to think of it, mostly handbags.’ I always like their astonished and disappointed faces! I realized through the 30 years of my career, I photographed a hell of a lot of handbags within my fashion work. And as the Americans once said to me, ‘Where’s the money shot?’ I looked at them puzzled. ‘Show me the money shot!’ they repeated. Here they are: the money shots in this collection of images for my new book.” Juergen Teller
This season sees the release of the newest book in Juergen Teller’s original and beloved “Masters” series. Teller made his first Master in 2005 as an homage to everything he believes is a master or masterful—be it a chef like Fergus Henderson, an artist like David Hamilton, his own grandmother, Kurt Cobain, or a landscape—as well as a tongue-in-cheek recognition of himself as a master of his own photographic identity. The concept was simple: to produce an ongoing series of humble books, each at the same small size, with no text and as little design as possible—an antithesis to the standard overblown coffee-table book. Like past volumes in the series, The Master IV features an unpredictable mix of Teller’s eclectic photography: be it his unorthodox fashion work, still lifes and landscapes, celebrity and self-portraits, or images that slip between these genres. These books are dedicated to four of Teller’s most important masters who have influenced both his work and outlook on life—Nobuyoshi Araki, William Eggleston, Boris Mikhailov and Charlotte Rampling—and feature new portraits of them.