Re-framing ideas of sex, fame and beauty, there's more to photographer Juergen Teller's archive than meets the eye.
Photographer Juergen Teller's latest book,"Donkey Man and Other Stories," is a 608-page tome of pictures taken over the course of three decades. The staggering story behind the title and cover image -- a self-portrait of the German photographer laying naked across the back of a donkey -- is told 50 pages in.
So after such a horrific experience, what possessed Teller to photograph himself, decades later, lying naked and vulnerable on top of a donkey? The book also features images and words from Teller's closest collaborators, including the actor Charlotte Rampling, who Teller has photographed numerous times. In one shot, taken in the courtyard of his studio, the actor sits powerful and poised holding a beautiful fox. A few pages later she is seen again -- this time on her hands and knees as she eats or drinks from the same white plate as the fox.
But focusing too heavily on the provocative nature of his work would be reductive. And anyway, as he put it in typical German fashion:"The English are weird about ."
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