The New Yorker
March 12, 2012
Goings on About Town: Art
Juergen Teller
By The New Yorker
The photographer best known for his brilliantly understated Marc Jacobs ad campaign has a blasé approach to everything—an attitude somewhere between cool and careless. Whether he’s shooting a befuddled William Eggleston, a nude Vivienne Westwood, or the countryside around his Suffolk home, the results are similarly unexciting, but consistently interesting. Although Teller’s interiors are overlit and his landscapes indifferently framed, he still makes some terrific pictures. Among them are portraits of the artist Cerith Wyn Evans in bed with a birthday cake and a big bunch of colored balloons; of Roni Horn naked and half-submerged in dark water, and of Westwood, as a pale, proud odalisque. Through March 17.