The Hard Sell

Juergen Teller’s humorous, sun-bleached images for Marc Jacobs have been among the most arresting fashion photographs of the past ten years, setting iconic and unexpected personalities in strange circumstances and eschewing the super-glossy perfection so typical of the genre. Tonight at New York’s Dashwood Books, in advance of his new exhibition Paradis, which opens at Lehmann Maupin Gallery later this month, the german photographer will be signing copies of his book Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998-2009, a celebration of his very fruitful partnership with New York’s favourite designer, published by Steidl.