The Keys to the House

The Keys to the House is Juergen Teller's record of the ground he actually stands on: his house, land, and family in Suffolk. He shoots it with the same flat directness he brings to a magazine job.

Landscapes of the property sit next to portraits of family and friends. Fashion and celebrity sitters appear too, given no more weight than anyone else: Lily Cole floats in water like Ophelia, Vivienne Westwood leans against a red Mercedes-Benz. Teller has said the mixing is deliberate. Commercial work and personal life aren't separate practices for him, just two ends of one continuous way of looking, and this book puts that claim on the page.

Teller (b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany) built his name on fashion campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Céline, and Yves Saint Laurent. Museums followed: Fondation Cartier gave him a Paris survey in 2006, and the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn a full retrospective, Enjoy Your Life!, in 2016. Steidl has published most of his books, among them Nürnberg, Woo!, and Märchenstüberl. The Keys to the House is one of the plainer, more domestic entries in a body of work otherwise defined by its access to fashion and celebrity.