Juergen Teller: MACHO
Photographer Juergen Teller is known for his work across art and fashion. He is not afraid of pushing the boundaries.
Teller has never been one to shy away from capturing, in his peculiarly informal and often humorous pictures, the plainness and beauty, the extraordinariness, hardness and fragility of the human being. As a result, he is one of the few photographers who have elevated fashion photography to a new kind of artistic expression. His work, when it first appeared in magazines, was a revelation, expressing a new kind of authentic style.
Many of Teller’s portraits including his famous self-portraits, are the result of a role-playing experiment where model and photographer swap places. Teller is seen to seamlessly slip from one role to the other. Self-portraits are central to Teller’s work. Teller is pictured in situations that range from collapsing face down into a half-eaten platter of roast pig, posing in a restaurant with his crew to getting worked up watching a football match on TV, his son by his side.
Teller will present his solo show for the first time in the city of Athens at the DESTE Foundation. Currently on display, the introspective selection of works, titled MACHO, remains on display until Wednesday 29 October 2014.
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