What's the point of shorts if they're not short?

Juergen Teller

Categorized in : Point Short Shorts

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

camera eyes see me

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

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I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.

try me always want

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.

my-life looking life people

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

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I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

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Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

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I just want to do everything as good as I possibly can.

everything just good want

I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.

yourself think failure water

I like friendship.

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I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.

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In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

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Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

man women sexy people

I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything.

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I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

me crazy beautiful world

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

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I never work with a screen. Other photographers have this black thing around, and they go back and look at it. I'd rather spend the time with the subject, photographing or discussing or talking, than staring at this thing. I'd rather look at what's going on.

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I think the range of my life shows in my work.

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One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.

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When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.

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