Saturday 20 January 2018

Juergen Teller / Jigsaw Menswear Autumn Winter 1997-1998



A man falling from a building, rolling down stairs and falling from a bicycle. Teller's A/W 1997 campaign for Jigsaw was a starck departure from conventional fashion photography. Grainy, blurred and capturing scenes rather than clothes Teller employed professional stuntmen to re-enact a series of movements and scenarios. He stated himself he was uninterested in pieces of clothing, rather what happens in them. At the time the work was referred to as disaster pictures and has more in common with Weegee, Bourdin or Longo's Men in Cities than his direct contemporaries. His brief work for Jigsaw may be his best and most adventurous- certainly a highlight of nineties fashion photography.