Get a life

Get A Life is the eagerly awaited new instalment in Juergen Teller’s book series with Vivienne Westwood, following Election Day (2009) and Vivienne Westwood (2008). Here is Teller’s unmistakable anti-fashion style: instead of standard airbrushed models we see Vivienne Westwood perched on a garbage bin, Pamela Anderson in a pot plant and a dishevelled Tati Cotliar screaming at the camera. Irreverent and almost macabre, Get A Life is based around Teller’s advertising campaign for Westwood’s spring-summer 2010 collection yet triumphs in blurring the boundaries between advertising and art. Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential publications such as W Magazine, iD and Purple and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Wien and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Teller has produced numerous monographs with Steidl including Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998–2009 and Zimmerman.