Böcker av Juergen Teller

Annotated in his wry, inimitable voice, Juergen Teller presents over three decades of fashion and editorial work in a groundbreaking volume that combines photography, collage, and candid (and often humorous) autobiography.

Unlike many photographers who maintain a strict divide between their commercial and private work, the author has always combined the two. This book contains the photographs of author's life at and around his house in Suffolk: landscapes, portraits of family and friends.

This book celebrates Juergen Teller's long-term collaboration with creative director Dennis Freedman for W magazine and later for luxury department store Barneys in New York. Between 1999 and 2016 the pair created a sweep of iconic series, all captured in Teller's trademark realistic style. In his photographs for W, Teller consistently went against the grain, resisting large-budget shoots and seeking out authentic, anti-commercial narratives and pared-down locations-as in his unforgettable first editorial in 1999 which features Stephanie Seymour, Shalom Harlow and Naomi Campbell (among other supermodels) as office workers at the magazine. Seen as a whole, Teller's W commissions reveal the evolution of his creative freedom, from shooting Haute Couture clients, Kate Moss at the Monaco Grand Prix and Tilda Swinton as a socialite collector, to portraits of William Eggleston and Roni Horn.Teller and Freedman's work for Barneys catalogues between 2011 and 2016 epitomizes their risk-taking approach in unusual fashion locations such as Belgrade, Panama City and Tirana. The resulting images show playful juxtapositions and unexpected scenarios, as models and actors explore their environments in comic poses, producing a kind of non-conformist advertising. Throughout Fashion Photography for America 1999-2016 Teller has photographed original W magazines and Barneys catalogues from his archives, a low-fi method that emphasizes the physical process of looking over his past work and allows us to share in the surprises of his retrospection.

The infamous Hill of Crosses is a pilgrimage and tourist site near siauliai, Lithuania, which originated after the November Uprising of 1830-31, an extensive yet unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Russian rule. Crosses is Juergen Teller's intimate response to this place of remembrance, which he visited with his Lithuanian wife Dovile Drizyte and her parents in autumn 2022. With his ever curious, surveying eye, Teller captures the intense spirituality of this sacred destination. Responding to over 100,000 crucifixes within just one acre, his images embody this tangled web of religious iconography, including a dense multitude of crosses, stone sculptures of Jesus Christ draped in rosary beads, and large wooden carvings. Teller singles out details of small effigies of Christ and other emblematic features, deftly framing them against the landscape in an act of candid self-reflection. The series takes on an even deeper personal significance in the context of the 2022 passing of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, with whom Teller had collaborated since 2007, and his gallerist since 2013 Suzanne Tarasieve. He embeds portraits of these powerful yet vulnerable women into his collection of symbolic images, a compelling tribute to two personalities who continue to inspire his work.

This revised and expanded edition of Juergen Teller's bestselling Handbags features a careful selection of images from the original 2019 book, alongside his favorite photographs made since. As before, Teller's advertising campaigns for distinguished brands such as Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Loewe, Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood are shown with images of handbags deftly styled for fashion editorials-all worn by celebrities and models or photographed as still-life objects. Teller acknowledges the visible shift towards celebrity endorsement in recent years, which has led to exciting new encounters with a multitude of actors, musicians, artists, writers and filmmakers.In his unmistakable subversive, raw style, Teller presents the ultimate fashion accessory as an everyday item rather than as a glamorized commodity, often in surprising contexts (a handbag perched atop supermarket vegetables) or with humorous intent (a bag sitting on a taxidermy crocodile). This time around, More Handbags has the compact size of a handbag itself, making it more accessible and tactile-and aptly more affordable for all of us who might not be able to buy the real thing.

The latest collaboration with his wife Dovile Drizyte, The Myth is Juergen Teller's playful interpretation of the "legs up" fertility myth. Following the humorous 2021 series "We are building our future together" in which the Tellers dressed up as construction workers on building sites, this project reflects the next stage of their relationship as they start a family together. The enchanting location is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como where the Tellers created images in each and every of the hotel's 97 unique rooms-in some we see the whole of Drizyte's naked body, while in others her cropped legs or feet appear unexpectedly: peeking behind duvets, curtains and furniture, tender juxtapositions in Teller's loving gaze.The theatricality and ambiguity of these performed scenarios recalls Teller's seminal 2004 series "Louis XV" shot with Charlotte Rampling at the Hôtel de Crillon, Paris. This conscious revisiting of a prior experience is firmly embedded in Teller's mythology, yet this time there is an air of serendipity. Run by the same family for four generations and shaped by tradition, the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is filled with art alluding to motherhood and the family unit. Paintings and sculptures of pregnancy, babies, storks and cherubs became an unexpected good luck charm for the Tellers' future parenthood and lend their amorous beauty to these deeply personal images, embodiments of the trust and creative connection between Teller and Drizyte.

Wir bauen zusammen unsere Zukunft«, erklärten Juergen Teller und Dovile Drizyte auf ihrer Hochzeitseinladung, handgeschrieben mit einem Foto des stolzenPaares, das sich, bekleidet mit nichts weiter als Schutzhelmen und Jacken, auf einer Baustelle in Pose wirft. Dies setzte den feierlichen, respektlosen Ton für ihre Hochzeit in Neapel - ein Anlass, den sie zu einem mehrtägigen, unvergesslichen Erlebnis für ihre Gäste machten, in einer Stadt, die sie für ihre düstere Schönheit lieben und für die Herzlichkeit ihrer Bewohner.Auguri ist Tellers und Drizytes ungeniertes visuelles Tagebuch ihres Hochzeitsabenteuers, vom ersten Location- Scouting bis zur Willkommensparty mit Tanz auf der Dachterrasse und Blick über den Golf von Neapel und den Vesuv. Von der Zeremonie bis zum feierlichen Abendessen, bei dem jeder Gast ein unerwartetes Geschenk des Brautpaares erhielt - nämlich einen signierten Keramikteller, bedruckt mit einem Motiv aus der Serie »Wir bauen zusammen unsere Zukunft« - und dem unbestreitbaren Höhepunkt des Abends: einem herrlich anzüglichen Auftritt der subversiven Dragqueen Christeene und ihrer Band. Vom faulenzerischen Sonntag danach an einem Strand in der Nähe mit Gelati, Calamari und Tischtennis bis zu den Flitterwochen auf Sizilien. Auguri ist sowohl ein persönliches Dankeschön von Teller und Drizyte an ihre Gäste als auch eine augenzwinkerndeHommage an die Liebe in all ihren lebendigen, ungeschminkten und fabelhaften Formen.

Juergen Teller carried out a study of the "Reichsparteitagsgelande". The results amount to a study of mortality, the process of birth, growth and death. This book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle.