The Master

In the summer of 2005 Steidl published a small booklet of Juergen Teller's work, titled 'The Master'. It offered acharacteristic examination of his own world and persona as a photographer, a mixture of fashion and commissionedworks, alongside self-portraits, family photographs and scenes from his Bavarian home. The title and starting point forthe book were portraits of two of his heroes, the photographers William Eggleston and Nobuyoshi Araki. The bookquickly went out of print and a second edition of the 'The Master' will now be printed alongside 'The Master II',marking the beginning of a series of booklets that will culminate in a slip-cased edition of all ten or more at some pointin the future. 'The Master II' comprises his recent body of work 'Ukraine' in which he chose to employ the city of Kievas the setting for a fashion shoot, mixing fashion, still-lives of the city, and portraits of ordinary people as a way of representinghis own fantasy of a country marked by a brash youthful energy and an obsession with capitalism.Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie inMunich. His work has been published in influential publications such as W Magazine, iD and Purple and has beenthe subject of solo exhibitions including the Photographer's Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Wien and the FondationCartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Teller has produced numerous monographs with Steidl including Marc JacobsAdvertising 1998-2009 and Zimmerman.