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

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I thought it was a weird idea – girls coming to see me as a man. I wanted to do it for one year and see what happened. In a way, that was my first conceptual project. Juergen Teller – Enjoy Your Life! - Exhibitions - Explore - Fotomuseum Winterthur". Fotomuseum Winterthur . Retrieved 20 July 2018.

This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs’ new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller’s inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well. From the rising walls of reinforced concrete and lattices of scaffolding, to the sparkling glass facades and gleaming interiors of the finished building, Teller became obsessed with recording intricate details within the larger shifting context: “I liked the diggers, cranes, cables, concrete and dirt. Not in a macho or childish way, but appreciating how all this construction work produces such a beautiful mess.”Faces Now: European Portrait Photography Since 1990, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, toured to Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, and National Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece (2015-2016) 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’. Werkübersicht::: Sammlung Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main". Museum für Moderne Kunst . Retrieved 12 January 2021. Framed by the doorway of Teller’s studio, the Go-Sees are depicted in many guises: shy, confident, hopeful, disengaged, energetic, relaxed, and in casual clothing. Transgressing fine art and fashion photography, the portraits, as with all of Teller’s other work, are never retouched. Teller’s snapshot style and spontaneous and unusual angles defer from the polished visual protocols so closely associated with the luxury world.

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.” Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites. Göttingen: Steidl, 2003 Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "The Citibank photography prize, Photographers' Gallery, London". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 March 2019. Dazed (25 January 2017). "See Juergen Teller's new visuals for adidas". Dazed . Retrieved 13 March 2019. We just got married in Naples,” he says, as his new wife and creative partner, Dovile Drizyte, types away on aMacBook at the far end of the table. ​ “Then we went on our honeymoon. We rented acar and drove down to Calabria, stayed in three different places and then Sicily for aweek. It was excellent.” That explains the tan, then.A ‘go-see’ is fashion industry slang for a would-be model who may or may not be worth engaging. The go-sees that Teller has photographed in the doorway to his studio since mid-1998 are not professionals but young women who have embraced the appearance and ideology of the world of fashion, and who decorate and deport themselves in a simulacrum of some form of ‘authentic’ model status. Ironically, and some could argue unhappily, the supermodels that these girls have attempted to emulate are themselves as far removed from any real notion of womanhood as Pot Noodle is from a square meal.

Juergen Teller (born 28 January 1964) is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018.

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Infinity Award: Special Presentation — Juergen Teller". International Center of Photography. 14 February 2018 . Retrieved 13 March 2019. In 2017, Teller’s mum called him up and said something really strange happened. The school teacher from said primary school had called her up to say that the children, aged between six and seven, were really interested in talking to her about her son. ​ “They were so excited about my photography and they were doing aschool project,” he says. ​ “I said to my mum, ​ ‘this sounds really strange but really interesting…’”So Teller flipped the whole thing on its head. Rather than his mum going down to the school to speak to the kids on behalf of her son, he surprised them and dropped by himself. AnOther (24 November 2017). "When Juergen Teller Photographed 1990s Go-Sees". AnOther . Retrieved 12 January 2021.