Juergen Teller’s Iconic Photography Career Comes to Life in Paris

The black-and-white photographs, shot at night in available light, merge street photography and portraiture and are, by turns, glamorous and gritty. They capture a lost Paris, sleazy yet stylish

Daily life becomes photographable, and photography becomes a practice of everyday life: a moment, a breath, a social event, a marking of time. To photograph is to digest the world.

Think of Margiela in Paris, that was a Golden Age in fashion because you could show in an alleyway, and there's kids around. Next to a dumpster. Maybe it was dangerous, but back then no one had to care about safety hazards. But now that's not safe anymore. You can't recklessly do that.

He was a creator in the true sense, bringing new ideas and sensibility to life; it’s rare to do that over so many decades. His legacy is still undigested because he kept reinventing himself. He responded to what he saw around him and worked with the new materials and technologies introduced during his lifetime. With some historical references only ... See more