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Jürgen Teller

(German, born 1964)
Jürgen Teller is a contemporary German photographer known for both his fine art and fashion work. In his unique portraits of models intermingling their celebrity lifestyle with the everyday, Teller examines social constructions of beauty. His work is distinctive for its candid feel, regularly photographing his subject in isolated surroundings with a washed-out, overexposed light, and often with unguarded expressions and seemingly unposed. In one of his most memorable portraits, Young Pink Kate, London (1998), he shot supermodel Kate Moss buried under hotel sheets, her face and splayed pink hair disembodied against a white ground. “I don’t like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach,” he explained. “I want to be as honest...