Indietro  Juergen Teller Handbags

“In 1999 I did a book called Go-Sees where girls came knocking on my door over a one-year period to show their portfolio and themselves.

Recently, walking through Paris, I found myself thinking what work I would exhibit in my upcoming museum show in Naples. Handbags, I’m just gonna do a handbag book and a show.

It felt like another Go-Sees book to me. Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph.

I replied: ‘Actually, come to think of it, mostly handbags.’ I always like their astonished and disappointed faces!

I realized through the 30 years of my career, I photographed a hell of a lot of handbags within my fashion work. And as the Americans once said to me, ‘Where’s the money shot?’

I looked at them puzzled. ‘Show me the money shot!’ they repeated.

Here they are: the money shots in this collection of images for my new book.” Juergen Teller