Juergen Teller Quotes

Juergen Teller

Profession : Photographer

Birth : January 28, 1964

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

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Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

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I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

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I would never ask somebody to do something where I felt that it's not right or it puts someone in an uncomfortable position.

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I think my moral ground is very much intact.

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If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

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When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

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I couldn't identify with the images in 'Elle' or 'Vogue' or 'Harper's Bazaar.' Nobody in the world we're walking around in actually looks like that.

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I don't care about fashion at all.

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You can't get away from fashion. The whole beauty thing is everywhere. It's just really weird.

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There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and bored with it. Then I thought, actually, how does it feel to be photographed? That's when I started to photograph myself. That was an incredibly important moment, and it opened up my work tremendously.

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I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

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I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

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I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

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Family is a major part of my life.

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I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

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I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

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I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.

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I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.

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I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

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