Juergen Teller - Fashion Photographer

Juergen Teller: Woo! | Collection Institute of Contemporary Arts, 23 Jan - 17 March 2013, https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/juergen-teller-woo
Book Ref: 'Juergen Teller: Woo!', Juergen Teller, Paperback, Steidl, 15th July 2013
Youtube: Juergen Teller on Woo! at the ICA, Feb 13th 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7JxfkO1Ac 

"One of the most important photographers of his generation" - ICA
Juergen Teller was the photographer for my chosen portrait of Vivienne Westwood, he is a renowned German fashion photographer and artist who employs an overexposed and raw style of his work through the use of his Contax G2 camera on which most o this exhibition work is produced. He works predominately in colour using over exposure to create a somewhat edited illusion to his images but maintaining that un-photoshopped sense of realism, his work has been featured in a number of top magazines from Vogue to I-D. His exhibition Woo! which featured models such as Lily Cole and Kate Moss was a homage to the fashion photography of the 1990's presenting classic images of the fashion of the time, nude photography and artistic landscapes. The collection was a raw insight into what created the 1990's as a defining period within modelling and fashion, Teller's photographs in particular of Vivienne Westwood and model Lily Cole explored the relationship between the model and the artist. Through the use of nude modelling he captures the sense of emotional vulnerability and sense of mockery undergone by models within fashion. The collection for this reason is a interesting piece of artwork as it exposes how our sense of humanity is lost through our seeking perfection and the emotional damage we undergo as a result of this.

Within relation to his connections with this project on Elizabethan England upon completing research there is much that links his series Woo! to that of English history. The location of the exhibition itself is representative of this as it takes place at the ICA. The ICA was chosen deliberately as it is located near Buckingham Palace, the centre of British regality but also the centre of London where the culture movement of Punk first began its existence. This is again how Dame Vivienne Westwood connects to the exhibition as she embodies both that sense of reality and punk within one being that Teller admires so much about London fashion.
The exhibition also featured work that was completed for editorial magazines and designers like Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent and Celine which was pasted into the Reading Room in a wallpaper like display. The room was a collaboration of editorials, portraits and landscapes that explored the concept of life, a sense of producing a photograph of a collaborative meaning of how we view things in life from a unique curious angle.