Juergen Teller: Go-Sees: Girls Knocking on My Door

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The result is a series of no fewer than 462 photographs, which, having previously been published in book-form, are now on display as part of a new exhibition at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery, entitled Juergen Teller: Go-Sees, Bubenreuth Kids and a Fairytale About a King. Many of them feature the front door or pavement outside Teller’s West London studio – models smile, or look down at the floor awkwardly, or crouch, or perform gymnastics with teenage enthusiasm, in a refreshingly candid and spontaneous portrait of the reality of model life. And while there are some superstars in the mix – don’t miss a young Shalom Harlow, for example – mostly what Teller documents so adeptly is that strange and slightly surreal rite of passage which places young women in front of the lens, passive and bemused. Each series of photographs has alittle story attached to it – some funny, others sad, but all revealing abit about Teller. The titular Donkey Man, for instance, tells the tale of how he narrowly escaped being raped while on adonkey ride in Turkey during the ​ ‘80s. Why did he choose this story to reflect his book? ​ “I wanted to make it intriguing,” Teller says of the cover photo, which is him lying naked on adonkey. ​ “When deciding on the cover, it could have been anything… but Ithink it was good to have me on the cover with the intriguing ​ ‘Donkey Man and Other Stories’.” And the other stories are equally surprising, ​ “whether [they’re] written words, fairytales or picture stories.”

In his time, Teller has shot naked pictures of Helen Mirren, Vivienne Westwood, Lily Cole, Lara Stone and himself – many times. But as he points out, ​ “within the percentage of nudes in the book, it’s actually not so much.” In 1997, Marc Jacobs worked with Teller's then-partner, Venetia Scott to style his collections and Teller shot Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth for the Spring Summer 1998 campaign. [6] Juergen Teller in Haarlem, 2003 The portraits are not just random girls; there are also future fashion icons in the making, such as Jade Parfitt, Shalom Harlow, and Devon Aoki. The images, however, are not accompanied by any commentary. Nevertheless, they show an apparent weirdness of the situation and the dubious position the young girls were being placed in by their fashion agencies, hooking them up with a male fashion photographer, who will run the rule on their physical appearance. Juergen Teller – Carmel, London, 10th September 1998 Juergen Teller – 26th February 1999 Production & meaning of the nameIn 2016, Teller curated an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at Alison Jacques Gallery in London where he selected 58 images from the Mapplethorpe Foundation collection. [19] Personal life [ edit ] Made over a twelve-month period, Go-Sees is a collection of photographs that depict the hundreds of women and young girls who called at Teller’s studio for an informal meeting in the hope of securing the modeling contract that would lead to fame, fortune and a life of ‘glamour’.

Captured in and framed by the doorway of the artist’s studio, the subjects of the series are depicted in several guises; confident, shy, hopeful, disengaged, relaxed, energetic, and casual clothing. Transgressing the fashion industry and fine art, the images, just like all other of Teller’s work, are never retouched. Teller’s snapshot skills and spontaneous, as well as the unusual angles, defer from the refined visual protocols so closely connected with the extravagance world. Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "The Citibank photography prize, Photographers' Gallery, London". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 March 2019. Poem on the Inner Sea at the 52nd Venice Biennale / PinchukArtCentre". PinchukArtCentre.org . Retrieved 13 March 2019. Juergen Teller is a UK-based German fine art and fashion photographer. Throughout his career, Teller often blurs the lines between his personal and commissioned works in his campaigns, publications, editorials, and exhibitions. Go SeesDazed (23 May 2016). "Why Juergen Teller puts himself in his photos". Dazed . Retrieved 13 March 2019. Teller was Professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 2014 to 2019. [18] Curating [ edit ] Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites. Göttingen: Steidl, 2003 Teller himself is deeply occupied within this same world despite the quasi-art-status his artworks have achieved in the art industry. The art industry is also known for its greediness for pieces, as is the ‘low’ culture to which it used to oppose.