Dovile in Deauville

As soon as Juergen Teller had the idea, he knew it was a good one: Dovile in Deauville. At the beginning of January 2024, following his largest exhibition to date “i need to live” at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, Juergen Teller and his wife and creative partner Dovile Drizyte headed to Deauville in Normandy—a coveted destination for the rich and famous since the nineteenth century, home to grand hotels, horse racing, a palace of a casino and the American Film Festival. Yet when the couple arrived in the middle of a grey winter, a different and altogether less glamorous picture of Deauville presented itself. This book is a visual memoir of their time together, and an unconventional portrait of both Dovile and Deauville showing Teller’s ability to find beauty in the expected, and humor and mystery in the mundane.

Author Biography

Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue, System, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin and the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and from 2014 to 2019 held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. His recent books with Steidl include Leben und Tod (2020), Auguri (2022), The Master V (2023), Notes About My Work (2023), i need to live (2023), More Handbags (2023), Jurgaičiai (2023) and The Myth (2023).