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Anja
Müller
 *1971
in Berlin (DDR), lives in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg. Study of
educational science, since 1992 freelance photographer,
regularly exhibitions of photographies, publications in
magazines...
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Anja Müller
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September 2010
Frauen 2
bound., 26 x 20 cm, 200 p.,29,90. ISBN
978-3-88769-501-9
Women in different ages. Flippant, erotic,
intimate, playful, earnest, documentary,
performed…
"In this diversity there lives her poetry. Many
pictures have something which crosses the lines,
something secret and sometimes something
forbidden… and at once the viewers feel
watched by an ironic eye, the eye of the woman they
had focused. The photographer knows one sentence:
come on, throw your cloths off! Is it possible to
construct the sentence which stands on the
beginning of these pictures: Come on, show
yourself? Live it up? All of this sounds too
willingly, too actively, too much like a duty of an
identity. Maybe the beginning sentence is that
easy: Nice, that you're here!" (Intro)
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Naked in defiance of cloths
No,
the headline isn't a paradox! Anja Müller's
photographs are windows in the souls of the models.
Even with cloths many models of "Frauen 2" are more
naked than Pin-Ups. The viewer is concerned with
exchangeable persons who support appropriate
sex-fantasies of men and women. In "Frauen 2"
there's a change of act- and portrait-photographs:
the pictures of the Berlin photographer interfere
every different feeling, may they be unhappiness,
happiness or amorousness.
Age and optic of the models play a small roll.
Müller nor underlines nor ignores the actual
beauty ideals: Her women are individual
personalities who present parts of themselves and
surely make "Women 2" to one of the most intimate
photo books in the erotic arts of
2010.
(erotic
lounge of t-online)
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"In the Middle"
Women
between 45 and 55. Erotic photographs. 3rd edition
2010. shape: 26*1 cm, noble art print paper, bound
with a dust cover, texts written by Yoko Tawada
(about the beauty of women around 50), Claudia
Gehrke (about becoming older) and Birgit Kausch
(about the experiences of modeling for this book),
29, 90 Euros
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"At first she's just a girl. Then the puberty comes
and she doesn't want to be a girl anymore. And then
the years around 25, 30, while she suppresses being
a girl. A 25-30 years old woman is really not
girl-like. But some when it comes back. The Soft,
Unknown, Unready. A smile, which looks like
half-crying. I think this is so delightful.
Becoming older also means becoming
older…"
(Yoko
Tawada)
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Bilder
aus "Mittendrin"
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..…when love begins
216
pages, Hardcover with dust jacket, format: 22,5 x
22,5 cm, 29,90 Euro, September 2004. ISBN
3-88769-335-3
Situations, when love begins, the moments, when
the butterflies in one's stomach become sensible,
records Anja Müller in her new, firstly
coloured photobook. Abandon, relaxation, closeness
and intimacy distinguish a lot of the pictures, but
the book also contains energetic portraits. Despite
of all variety the allurement of the sudden
„lightning" is catched in every photograph.
Affectionate and sensual, still and romantic,
exciting and stirring are the people of this
portraits and by observing these photographs the
wellknown feelings of the first seconds, the
butterflies, are rising inside.
reviews:
„What attracts the attention of Anja
Müllers photopgraphs is the lack of any
routine. She has taken the picture newly again and
again out of the particular situation, or better,
out of the feeling she had in the same moment.
There is neither coolness nor greed in her eyes but
tenderness. Smooth outlines, soft play of light and
shadow&endash; in the second when she presses the
shutter release she holds on time. And an agravic
space is opened where people can be by themselves,
closely connected with everything, that
exists… Anja Müller captures something
you can't take away from them. And that assures
what we quite believe her: The life we are imaging
could be real." (Neues Deutschland)
„The Berlin artist Anja Müller focuses on
erotic photography beyond conventional portrayal.
Her pictures distinguish a rarely findable intimacy
and presence." (Die Märkische)
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*1971
in Berlin (DDR), lives in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg. Study of
educational science, since 1992 freelance photographer,
regularly exhibitions of photographies, publications in
magazines...
