{"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\/products\/nobuyoshi-araki-juergen-teller-leben-und-tod-steidl-gottingen-2020","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}