Juergen Teller: Handbags

"In 1999 I did a book called Go-Sees where girls came knocking on my door over a one-year period to show their portfolio and themselves. Recently, walking through Paris, I found myself thinking what work I would exhibit in my upcoming museum show in Naples. Handbags, I'm just gonna do a handbag book and a show. It felt like another Go-Sees book to me. Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph. I replied: 'Actually, come to think of it, mostly handbags.' I always like their astonished and disappointed faces! I realized through the 30 years of my career, I photographed a hell of a lot of handbags within my fashion work. And as the Americans once said to me, 'Where's the money shot?' I looked at them puzzled. 'Show me the money shot!' they repeated. Here they are: the money shots in this collection of images for my new book." Juergen Teller

“The master fashion photographer makes a gorgeous typology of the ultimate accessory.”

[Juergen Teller: Handbags'] recurring theme is a perfect motif to highlight Teller's approach to the image: humorous, provocative, narrative driven and very alive.--Francesca Gavin "AnOther"
Consider this the natural successor to Us Weekly's "What's In My Bag?" series. Teller, the king of minimalist style, has dedicated his latest monograph to the item he believes he's photographed the most of everything: Bags, baby!--Devon Ivie "Interview"
Demonstrating how Teller has reshaped the field of fashion photography since he first emerged in the 1990s, Handbags will delight the aficionado of contemporary fashion and of photography alike.-- "L'Oeil de la Photographie"
Removed from their original commercial context and viewed now from a slight chronological distance, his images, especially when seen in aggregate, have taken on aesthetic and psychological dimensions.--Amy Collins "Introspective"
-- "Interview"

Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue, System, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and from 2014 to 2019 held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. His books with Steidl include Louis XV (2005), MarcJacobs Advertising, 1998-2009 (2009), Siegerflieger (2015) and The Master IV(2019)

The master fashion photographer makes a gorgeous typology of the ultimate accessory "Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph," Juergen Teller says, apropos of his latest book. "I replied: 'Actually, come to think of it, mostly handbags.' I always like their astonished and disappointed faces! I realized through the 30 years of my career, I photographed a hell of a lot of handbags within my fashion work." This enormous 600-page book of photographs of handbags depicts the accessory as you might imagine it through the lens of Teller, colorful and well lit, but nonetheless as you have never seen handbags before. Numerous models, actors and infamous individuals are featured here, including Michael Clark, Cindy Sherman, Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Sofia Coppola, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich and Victoria Beckham. Teller himself sees the book as akin to his 1999 volume Go-Sees , in its direct serial character. Demonstrating how Teller has reshaped the field of fashion photography since he first emerged in the 1990s, Handbags will delight the aficionado of contemporary fashion and of photography alike. Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue , System , i-D , POP and Arena Homme+ , and has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and from 2014 to 2019 held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden K

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