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Juergen Teller, photography without taboos

2021-11-23T05:22:49.523Z


Man is a myth. Fleeing conformism, this 57-year-old German, a photographer as admired as he is controversial, has always done as he pleases. Meeting with a sensitive provocateur.


That day, the red football fan shorts are not out.

Juergen Teller preferred gray baggy jeans.

A banker's costume on the scale of this large eccentric child who loves to walk around bare-legged in winter and summer, as a sign of allegiance to Bayern Munich, “his” club, his second home.

His other passion.

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Taller than I thought, the sparse hair, erect like a jumble of porcupine, the chubby and juvenile face pierced with two mischievous eyes of an intense blue protected by glasses, the German photographer welcomes me, smile on the lips, questions in ambush, at the end of the morning in Suzanne Tarasieve's gallery, at this moment, still deserted.

We are a few hours away from the opening of the new Parisian exhibition (until December 4, 2021) of the enfant terrible of the photo, in the middle of the crazy week of the Fiac of which Juergen Teller is one of the most awaited celebrities.

Juergen Teller has recently been interested in the relationship of humans to snails, amphibians and other animals.

© 2017 Juergen Teller, All rights Reserved

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Source: lefigaro

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