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This season sees the release of the newest book in Juergen Teller´s original and beloved "Masters" series. Teller made his first Master in 2005 as an homage to everything he believes is a master or masterful-be it a chef like Fergus Henderson, an artist like David Hamilton, his own grandmother, Kurt Cobain, or a landscape-as well as a tongue-in-cheek recognition of himself as a master of his own photographic identity. The concept was simple: to produce an ongoing series of humble books, each at the same small size, with no text and as little design as possible-an antithesis to the standard overblown coffee-table book. Like past volumes in the series, The Master IV features an unpredictable mix of Teller´s eclectic photography: be it his unorthodox fashion work, still lifes and landscapes, celebrity and self-portraits, or images that slip between these genres. These books are dedicated to four of Teller´s most important masters who have influenced both his work and outlook on life-Nobuyoshi Araki, William Eggleston, Boris Mikhailov and Charlotte Rampling-and feature new portraits of them.

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Teller, Juergen
Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue, System, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain in Paris, and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and has published numerous monographs with Steidl including Louis XV (2005), Marc Jacobs Advertising, 1998-2009 (2009) and Enjoy Your Life! Mit dem Teller nach Bonn (2016).

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