About The Book
In the 1980s, Robby Müller often stayed in Los Angeles, where he worked on films such as Repo Man, Paris, Texas, To Live and Die in L.A., and Barfly. During these times, he lived at the Kensington Motel in Santa Monica. Using his Polaroid camera, Müller captured moments away the film set: motel rooms, beaches, and street corners. With a keen eye for light and color, these images depict a vanished Los Angeles, seen through the eyes of a cameraman far from home, experiencing the foreign city through his lens.
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About The Artist
Cinematographer Robby Müller (Curaçao, 1940−Amsterdam, 2018) was one of the greatest pioneers in his field. Raised in Indonesia and the Netherlands, Müller studied at the Dutch Film Academy in the early Sixties. As assistant to cinematographer Gérard Vandenberg, he left for Germany, where he met Wim Wenders. Their long-lasting collaboration included such iconic road movies as Alice in den Städten (1974), Im Lauf der Zeit (1976), and Paris, Texas (1984).
From the late Seventies onward Müller worked widely, shooting films for Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, and Barbet Schroeder. His long collaboration with Jim Jarmusch led to Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, and Dead Man. In the Nineties he worked with Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark, exploring new approaches to handheld and digital filmmaking.
Video: Living the Light – Robby Müller – Trailer | IFFR 2020 | For her film essay Living the Light – Robby Müller (2018), filmmaker Claire Pijman combined archival footage of Müller with excerpts from his cinematic oeuvre and interviews with colleagues, friends, and family.
Music: SQÜRL (Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch) | Some Music for Robby Müller.
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Specifics
Robby Müller: L.A. Polaroids (STANLEY/BARKER, 2025) | Edited and with an introduction by Andrea Müller-Schirmer | Designed by Linda van Deursen | Texts by Alex Cox, Willem Dafoe, Barbara Scharres, Andrea Müller-Schirmer and Wim Wenders | Size: 30×24 | Pages: 96 | Details: Linen Covered / Case Bound / Silk screened. Link.
