German - Photographer | January 28, 1964 -
When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.
Juergen Teller
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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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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 like friendship.
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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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