Juergen Teller is a German fine-art and fashion photographer.
"For the past 25 years — ever since he shot a nude Kristen McMenamy
with the word “Versace” scrawled across her chest and enclosed in a
red lipstick heart in 1996 — Juergen Teller has been one of the
most provocative, influential and in-demand fashion and celebrity
photographers. But his pictures also often resonate beyond their
commercial origins, and so a book-length monograph of his oeuvre is
as welcome as it is overdue. “Donkey Man and Other Stories” is a
collection of his voluminous magazine commissions; portraits of
family members, fauna and landscapes; and brief reminiscences both
by and of Teller. Iconic photos of Kurt Cobain, Charlotte Rampling,
Kate Moss, et al., sit side by side with almost human-seeming frogs
(a recurring motif) and invariably phallic still lifes. Regardless
of subject matter, jarring juxtapositions are the rule: snails and
peaches; nude models prancing in the Louvre; a callipygian Kim
Kardashian in stockings and heels scaling a sandpit." —NEW
YORK TIMES
"The eccentric photographer, who plays Ping-Pong in his London
studio, has a new book that combines provocative self-portraits and
celebrity images." —WALL STREET JOURNAL
"It’s an opportune moment...for a critical reassessment of Teller’s
work. Which is why the arrival of his first-ever collection of
editorial photography couldn’t come at a better time. Donkey Man
and Other Stories, Volume 1...acts as a kind of survey of three
decades of Teller’s output, comprising editorials and shoots
created for almost every major magazine. It includes some of the
most recognizable of Teller’s images — a nude Kristen McMenamy
smoking in 1996, Kim Kardashian perched perilously on a pile of
rubble in 2015, Björk with her infant son in an Icelandic hot
spring in 1993. But it affords space, too, to the lesser-known
parts of his body of work, and spotlights the images that have been
less heavily referenced." —HYPEBEAST
"German photographer Juergen Teller rose to fame in the 1990s for
his matter-of-fact editorial style. His candid images of models,
celebrities, strangers and friends radiate with the complications
of life: humor, death, ugliness, unremitting beauty. Now, it all
comes neatly packaged in a new volume of his [works] by
Rizzoli." —CULTURED MAG
"if you couldn’t get enough of Juergen Teller’s off-kilter
photoshoot of actor Steven Yeun and other celebrities for W
magazine, you’ll love his latest book of photographs that includes
never-before-seen outtakes from iconic shoots with Cindy Sherman,
Marc Jacobs, Victoria Beckham, and more. The 608-page tome, which
covers over 30 years of work, features wry and humorous annotations
by and commentary from the master himself." —NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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