If by some catastrophic cultural blind spot you don’t know his name (seriously?), you will know the work of Juergen Teller. Since the early Nineties, he has been up-ending the worlds of fashion and art with his up-yours style of irreverent, point-and-shoot photography: Kate Moss in bed, Kate Moss in a wheelbarrow, a dead frozen dog in a bin, Victoria Beckham in a giant Marc Jacobs bag, naked Vivienne Westwood, naked Charlotte Rampling with naked Juergen... lots of naked Juergen.
Juergen doesn’t wear a lot of clothes and when he does it’s his signature fluoro shorts, no matter the weather. (BTW: there is even a naked version of our cover image but we thought we’d save your blushes on the Central line.) With five books on the way and a new fanbase of TikTokers obsessed with Juergen’s ultra-real aesthetic, Joe Bromley reassesses the man behind the mischief-making (with a little help from Iggy Pop and Gary Lineker).
