Karin Apollonia Muller: Angels in Fall (Non-mint)

Rodney Sappington

Hardcover | 29.85 x 0.64 x 26.67 cm | 112 pp

Kruse | 2001 | 9783934923096

Rare and collectable

This is Karin Apollonia Muller's breakthrough debut collection and one of the most powerful photographic debuts of our time. Angels In Fall is a sequence of images of Los Angeles by an artist who is an outsider and therefore acutely sees what insiders - which every Angeleno is, one way or another - are too close for comfort to see.

Karin Apollonia Muller works in colour, deploying a pure, understated, and nuanced palette that is the antithesis of Andreas Gursky's saturated (and equally compelling) colours. It works beautifully for Los Angeles, whose blur and haze identified with the city are captured beautifully without rendering the work topical. Environmentalists claim her as one of them, but whatever her personal opinion may be about the environment, Muller is an artist, not an activist. 

As Rodney Sappington's text states, this is a world where the synthetic and the global have overtaken the natural and the local, where the landscape has become a mercurial web of living dreams. Her images are both immediately real and eerily distant depictions of the vertiginous changes unraveling our everyday lives. She captures an era in which economic change is written on the streets, on human bodies, and on every form of the environment. A moving visual document of the world's most bewildering and most beguiling city.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.