Don’t Miss: Juergen Teller: Woo
The subjects in photographer Juergen Teller’s new show at London’s ICA are fully exposed: a 68-year-old Vivienne Westwood reclining nude in a large triptych, Lily Cole naked in a garbage heap in India, but also a famously reclusive Bjork floating in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon with her son, and charming images of Teller’s own infant son, Ed. This is Teller’s first solo UK show in a decade, and its title, “Woo,” seems to wink at his unique ability to access and amplify these remarkably unguarded moments. Though to be sure, there’s plenty of humor in the mix: Kate Moss in a wheelbarrow, his iconic shot of Victoria Beckham’s legs popping out of a Marc Jacobs bag, his mother with the jaws of a crocodile, and even smoking cat.
Juergen Teller: Woo is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London through March 17.
And check out Teller’s portfolio of 33 of the year’s brightest stars in our February issue.
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Smiling Ed, London 2005
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Kate Moss, No.12, Gloucestershire, 2010
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Mother with Crocodile, Bubenreuth, Germany 2002
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Teenager, Suffolk 2010
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Cerith, Suffolk 2011 (The Keys to the House No.28, Suffolk 2011)
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Pettitoe, Suffolk, 2011
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No.12 of the series ‘Irene im Wald’, 2012
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Sigmund Freud’s Couch (Malgosia), London, 2006
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Cat smoking, Hydra, 2012
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Bjork and son, Iceland 1993
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The Keys to the House No.39, Suffolk 2010
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No.1 of the series ‘Irene im Wald’, 2012
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Vater und Sohn, Bubenreuth 2005
