Juergen Teller Quotes

Juergen Teller

Profession : Photographer

Birth : January 28, 1964

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

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I like friendship.

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For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

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One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.

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I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.

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I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

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Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

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I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.

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I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

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When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.

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I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything.

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I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

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I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

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Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

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You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

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I just want to do everything as good as I possibly can.

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I never work with a screen. Other photographers have this black thing around, and they go back and look at it. I'd rather spend the time with the subject, photographing or discussing or talking, than staring at this thing. I'd rather look at what's going on.

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I think the range of my life shows in my work.

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When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.

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Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

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