Juergen Teller: Do You Know What I Mean

by Juergen Teller

A retrospective look at the work of one of the most influential fashion photographers of his generation.

Jü rgen Teller first became famous for his innovative fashion editorials published in magazines such as i-D, W , and The Face . His work redefined the aesthetics of fashion photography, moving away from the glamour and gloss of the 1980s to the more brutally direct realism of the 1990s.

Teller captures his subjects at seemingly unrehearsed moments, revealing them in all their imperfection and vulnerability. Whether he is photographing supermodels and celebrities or himself and his family, Teller finds poetry in the everyday, creating images that are poignant, humorous, rough, or tender. This book includes the major icons of his work in fashion, as well as new and previously unpublished images. 150 color illustrations.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published October 30, 2006

About the author

Juergen Teller is a German fine-art and fashion photographer.

Reviews

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

I somehow really loved Juergen Teller before seeing many of his pictures because he had a glorious one with Jessica Stam, my favorite model, in which she looked like a heroin addict, and because all the Marc Jacobs ads were so simple and so grotesque.

I read (and looked at) this, though, and his wife's essay was strange and sad and his photographs were often overexposed or of inane subject matter and I just felt a big shrug coming on, just felt like he was another one of those people hailed as visionaries who just had a nice camera and friendships with celebrities and a penchant for being nude. Yeah, one of those.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Photographic collection with an interesting essay and interview as well.