(MULLER, KARIN APOLLONIA). Muller, Karin Apollonia & Rodney Sappington. KARIN

(MULLER, KARIN APOLLONIA). Muller, Karin Apollonia & Rodney Sappington. KARIN APOLLONIA MULLER: ANGELS IN FALL. Hamburg, GERMANY: Kruse Verlag GmbH, 2001. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket-As Issued. np, 44 color illustrations. Text in English. Equal measures contemplative and bleak, "Angels in Fall" is Karin Apollonia Muller's compelling study of the urban and man-made landscape of Los Angeles. Shot in a muted palette with nary a blue sky or sunshine in sight, the German-born photographer's adopted city seems permanently cloaked in grey and solitude. A brand new, pristine example of this gem (cited on page 284 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-934923-09-7 Inventory Number: 021127.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Karin Apollonia Müller. Essay (in English and German) by Rodney Sappington. Unpaginated with 40 four-color plates. 10-1/2 x 12 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the publisher: "Karin Müller's photography brilliantly interprets the landscape of Los Angeles from a new point of view-here landscape is displayed as a slice of the earth's surface, never purely representative of geography, region, or city. Landscapes are never stable-they evoke human absence as well as human presence, and shift with the spatio-temporal coordinates of human desire. Müller's L.A. is a world where the synthetic and 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, the bodies, and the transformation of just about every form of the built (and natural) environment."