Teller, Jurgen - Go-Sees - 1999

VG 1st ed 1999 Scalo hardback, high quality production. Some superficial handling marks and darkening mainly to top front edge of cover, a little spotting to rear inside cover and end-papers due to storage and mildly visible dulling to page edges, a little rubbing to spine ends, bright and unmarked, very secure binding, the book sits square. Please have a look at our other Jurgen Teller auctions.
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Juergen Teller – Go-Sees – Scalo, 1999
Up for auction is a true holy grail of contemporary fashion and conceptual art photography: "Go-Sees" by Juergen Teller. Published in 1999 by the revered Scalo Verlag, this massive, 470-page hardcover is a legendary piece of visual culture that is now entirely out of print and exceptionally rare.
The premise of the book is deceptively simple: For precisely one year—from May 1998 to May 1999—Teller photographed every single aspiring model sent to his West London studio by casting agencies for a "go-see" (a modeling audition).
Using the front door and pavement outside his studio as a permanent backdrop, Teller subverted the fashion industry's rigid, hyper-curated perfection. Instead, he captured raw, candid, unposed, and deeply vulnerable documentary-style portraits of these young women—regardless of whether they were ever booked for a job. Why this book is an absolute collector's masterpiece:
Future Superstars in the Raw: Features incredibly rare, fresh-faced, early-career portraits of young women who would go on to become global icons, including Adriana Lima, Devon Aoki, Mariacarla Boscono, Shalom Harlow, and Debra Shaw.
Rather than just a collection of pictures, Go-Sees serves as a profound, brilliant interrogation of the fashion industry, capturing the awkward, hopeful, and slightly surreal reality of teenage models navigating the gaze of the camera.
Raw Aesthetic: Shot primarily in natural, changing seasonal light without artificial studio polish, it revolutionized the entire landscape of 21st-century fashion imagery. A vital, brilliant cornerstone for any serious collection of fine art, street culture, or rare 1990s photography books.