{"title":"Juergen Teller","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuergen Teller (born 1964) is a German photographer whose work spans fashion, art, and autobiography, characterised by an unflinching directness, deliberate rawness, and the collapse of boundaries between the commercial and the personal. Trained at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, he built his reputation through editorial work for publications including i-D and Vogue, alongside longstanding collaborations with designers including Marc Jacobs and Vivienne Westwood. His photographs have been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including the ICA London, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, and the Kunsthalle Wien.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lang-helmut-selective-memory-series-purple-book-2007","title":"HELMUT LANG — Selective Memory Series: The Helmut Lang Purple Book, Purple Institute \/ HL-ART, 2007","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished as a special supplement to \u003cem\u003ePurple Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e No. 7, Summer 2007, by Purple Institute and HL-ART, Paris and New York. An intimate publication assembled from Helmut Lang’s personal archive: letters, notes, invitations, drawings, photographs and fragments of correspondence exchanged with artists, photographers, collaborators and friends. Among those represented are Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Juergen Teller and Bruce Weber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than present a conventional chronology, the book reproduces the archive as a field of partial evidence. A handwritten message sits beside an exhibition invitation; a private photograph becomes a printed page; a computer contact sheet reveals the filing system from which the material was selected. Memory appears through what was retained, scanned, enlarged and placed back into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication appeared two years after Lang departed his namesake fashion house to concentrate on his art practice. It belongs to the moment when material previously understood through fashion, publicity and collaboration began to be reorganised explicitly as artistic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLang had long worked across clothing, architecture, advertising, photography and artist collaboration without treating them as entirely separate disciplines. Here, that expanded field is reduced to paper. The people surrounding the work become part of the work: professional exchange, friendship, inscription and memory held within the same editorial structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally distributed with \u003cem\u003ePurple Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e, the book moves between magazine supplement, personal archive and artist’s publication. The MAK later incorporated excerpts from the Selective Memory Series into its presentation of the Helmut Lang Archive, recognising the project as part of Lang’s continuing examination of storage, memory and display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21.5 × 28 cm. 80 pages. Saddle-stitched softcover; black-and-white and colour reproductions; text in English. Condition: good. Light rubbing, handling marks and age toning to the wrappers, with minor creasing, edge wear and corner softening. Small pressure marks and faint surface impressions visible to the covers. Internally complete and generally clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Purple Institute \/ HL-ART","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54186920640850,"sku":"LANG-PURPLE-BOOK-2007","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Lang_-Helmut_-Purple-magazine_-Helmut-Lang-book-selective-memory-series--front.jpg?v=1786703121"},{"product_id":"nobuyoshi-araki-juergen-teller-leben-und-tod-steidl-gottingen-2020","title":"NOBUYOSHI ARAKI \u0026 JUERGEN TELLER, Leben und Tod, Steidl, Göttingen, 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNobuyoshi Araki \/ 荒木経惟 \u0026amp; Juergen Teller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeben und Tod\u003cbr\u003eSteidl, Göttingen, 2020\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover in purple sleeve\u003cbr\u003e26 × 19 cm · 72 pp.\u003cbr\u003e67 colour photographs\u003cbr\u003eEnglish language\u003cbr\u003eText and design by Juergen Teller\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-3-95829-745-6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSealed in original publisher’s shrink-wrap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Rare Shrinkwrap Collection\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeben und Tod\u003c\/em\u003e — Life and Death — brings together Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller in an unusually intimate exchange around mourning, memory, family and the stubborn persistence of objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project grew out of their joint exhibition at artspace AM in Tokyo in 2019. Teller had been photographing following the deaths of his uncle and stepfather Artur: his mother, now widowed again; the Bavarian town of Bubenreuth where he grew up; and the ordinary landscape of home. These images sit against photographs made while travelling in Bhutan with his partner Dovile Drizyte, placing fertility, sexuality and life beside grief and disappearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAraki responded by asking Teller to send him objects from his childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeller returned to his mother’s house and selected things carrying particular emotional weight — toys, a porcelain figure and small bridges made in his family’s violin-making workshop. The objects travelled from Bavaria to Tokyo, where Araki arranged and photographed them in his own home. The collaboration therefore unfolds through displacement: Teller’s memories become physical objects, cross continents, and enter Araki’s photographic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exchange gives the book its peculiar emotional charge. Teller photographs loss through people and places; Araki approaches it through things. Death is never allowed to settle into solemnity, but is continually pushed against sex, fertility, humour and the material survival of objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAraki and Teller had already been brought together for \u003cem\u003eAraki Teller Teller Araki\u003c\/em\u003e at OstLicht, Vienna, in 2014. By the time of \u003cem\u003eLeben und Tod\u003c\/em\u003e, the relationship had become more personal. Araki described Teller publicly as being like his son, giving the project an additional generational dimension: a book concerned with the death of a father figure becoming, at the same time, a record of another kind of artistic kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy remains sealed in its original publisher’s shrink-wrap, and in that state the book acquires another layer. A publication about life, death, memory, attachment and loss remains physically inaccessible, its images still unseen by its owner, its contents held intact behind a thin transparent membrane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor that reason, this copy also forms part of The New Rare Shrinkwrap Collection — publications whose unopened state is no longer merely packaging, but part of the identity of the particular object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe saturated purple sleeve, Araki’s gestural black lettering and the untouched plastic make this especially strong in sealed state: a book about intimacy that remains closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New \/ unopened. Sealed in original publisher’s shrink-wrap, with minor compression and rubbing to the external plastic from storage. The book itself has never been opened. Please refer to photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eRead our journal: The New Rare at GLUE Book Fair 2026 →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54708614070610,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Araki_Nobuyoshi.Teller_Jurgen.LebenundTod_LifeandDeath_.2020.jpg?v=1789288884"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/juergen-teller.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}