The Master II

Juergen Teller’s campaigns for Marc Jacobs and Helmut Lang, and his fashion editorials for magazines over the last two decades, have been credited with changing the face of fashion photography by virtue of their fresh and un-manufactured tone. Teller makes little distinction between his fashion work, commissioned portraits for magazines, and the photographs he takes for himself. All aspects of his work rely on establishing an intimacy between subject and photographer, setting up a non-hierarchical and slightly irreverent relationship which ultimately gives the viewer the sense of truth revealed.
In recent years, Teller has exhibited a mixture of fashion and commissioned works, alongside self-portraits, family photographs and scenes from his Bavarian home, which together examine his own world and persona as a photographer. The title The Master series is a tongue-in cheek continuation of that exploration, and this, the second volume, includes theatrical self-portraits, pictures of non-celebrity subjects from his professional and personal life, and a portraits of artists such as David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Roni Horn and Steve McQueen.