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Juergen Teller

German Photographer

Born: Jan 28, 1964

Fashion Me People Think Work You

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In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do. Juergen Teller

Good You Risks Something Take Order Really

I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything. Juergen Teller

Women Men Everything Eating Like Doing Just Children Really

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me. Juergen Teller

Beautiful Me Crazy World Photograph Some Pointless Put Sort Person Going Just Which Interested Interesting Much Why

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father. Juergen Teller

Family Me Conversation Business Remember Mother Father Took Except Never Had No-One Encouraged Walked Truthful Family Business Did After Cannot Interest Grandfather Meaningful Really Even Away

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring. Juergen Teller

Big No Big Deal Boring Rather Deal Big Deal Normal German

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others. Juergen Teller

Beautiful Others Ways Some Disturbing Very Childhood

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing. Juergen Teller

Mother Try Will Extremely Photograph Exactly Exactly What Minute Impatient Insists Only Knowing She Doing Normally Whenever Stand

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy. Juergen Teller

Matter Realistic Photograph Something Subject Subject Matter Often Fantasy Actually

When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair. Juergen Teller

Christmas Saying Hide Uncle Nuremberg Would Scared Dressed He Armchair House Always Leave Go Child Behind Room Then Grandmother Really Toilet Santa Santa Claus Needed

I think my moral ground is very much intact. Juergen Teller

Think Moral Intact Very Much Ground

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element. Juergen Teller

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you. Juergen Teller

You School Guilt Kid About Learn Sort German Being

I couldn't identify with the images in 'Elle' or 'Vogue' or 'Harper's Bazaar.' Nobody in the world we're walking around in actually looks like that. Juergen Teller

World Vogue Nobody Like Identify Looks Around Walking Actually Images

I don't care about fashion at all. Juergen Teller

Fashion Care About

I don't really like being controlled by anyone. Juergen Teller

Like Controlled Being Anyone Really

I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me. Juergen Teller

Me Heart Feeling Take Go Where Wherever Interest

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft. Juergen Teller

Seriously Photographic Take Very Craft

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it. Juergen Teller

Imagination Visual Had Football Liked Child Playing

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures. Juergen Teller

Me Rich Could Take Pictures Make Just Famous Wanted Aware

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you're more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting. Juergen Teller

You Change Mother Parents Partner Own Relationships Kid Find More Uncles Makes How Educated Came Very Where Interesting Roots Your Suddenly Aware Conscious Treated

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person. Juergen Teller

Humanity People Personality Hide Try White Background Photograph Case Am Model Person Want Anything Against Interested Across Bring

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry. Juergen Teller

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