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In his teens he abandoned an apprenticeship making bridges for violins (the family trade).!
Juergen Teller
German fine-art and fashion photographer (born 1964)
Juergen Teller (born 28 January 1964) is a German fine-art and fashion photographer.
We first worked with art and fashion photographer Juergen Teller in around the time of Walking Wounded.
He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018.
Major solo exhibitions of his work have been organised at Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris (2006); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2010); Dallas Contemporary, TX (2011); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2011); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013); Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2015); Kunsthalle Bonn, Germany (2016), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018), Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (2023).
Self-portraiture has been a prominent feature of his practice and was the main focus of his 'Macho' exhibition at DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece (2014).[1]
Education
Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, G