Juergen Teller | Donkey Man and Other Stories

Juergen Teller is a German photographer whose work is defined by its radical honesty and refusal of convention. Moving freely between fashion, portraiture, and autobiography, he collapses the boundaries between subject and author, embracing imperfection, vulnerability, and immediacy as formal tools. Across decades of work, Teller has reshaped contemporary photography by insisting on presence over polish, revealing a practice that is as personal as it is influential.

Donkey Man presents Juergen Teller at his most unfiltered, collapsing the distance between life and image through photographs that privilege immediacy over polish. Printed with deliberate restraint, the book’s physical presence reinforces the work’s intimacy—material, tactile, and quietly considered. Together, image and object assert photography as both a lived gesture and a crafted one, rooted in honesty rather than performance.

Width 9" x Depth 11" x Height 1.75"

Hardcover, 608 pages. Published by Rizzoli, 2021. Language: English.