Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller (born in 1964 in Erlangen, Germany) studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany (1984–1986). He emigrated to London, England in 1986 and established himself as a fashion photographer in the emerging London-based scene that concentrated around such experimental magazines as The Face and i-D. Teller championed a naturalism that captured the clothing and attitudes, homes and activities of a late 1980s and 1990s generation eschewing the formality of fashion’s poise for a street-style that became his characteristic form. Teller has been associated with the fashion campaigns of particular designers among them Helmut Lang, Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garçons, Vivian Westwood and Marc Jacobs. Teller has consistenly taken images for himself which he shows in a gallery or museum context. Although the images featured here were initially commissioned by the French magazine Paradis he has also shown them as individual prints. The shoot, featuring the British actress Charlotte Rampling and the German model Raquel Zimmerman, took place in The Louvre in Paris after hours. These images were selected for their referencing of classical sculpture. Teller has used flash photography to partially obscure the image and selected figures and attitudes that correspond to his typically humorous and suggestive style. Teller lives in London but spends much of every summer on the island of Hydra.