Touch Me

Touch Me is the catalogue built around an exhibition that set out to look past Juergen Teller's best-known fashion and luxury pictures, toward the aesthetic habits running underneath his whole photographic practice.

The show opened at Le Consortium in Dijon in January 2010, then travelled to the Daelim Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul the following year, and the book follows that structure. It juxtaposes installation photographs of the two hangs with the original images themselves, so the reader sees both the pictures and the decisions made about how to show them. An essay by Eric Troncy, the Consortium's co-director, frames Teller's work as a question about contemporary photography's display conditions as much as its content. Text runs in English and Korean across the book's 135 pages.

Teller (b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany) had by 2010 built a career on fashion campaigns for Marc Jacobs and Céline alongside gallery and museum exhibitions, including a 2006 survey at Fondation Cartier, Paris. Touch Me belongs to that gallery side of his output: a small, essay-driven catalogue rather than a trade monograph, aimed at exhibition audiences in Dijon and Seoul rather than a bookstore readership.