Publisher: STANLEY/BARKER
Measurements: 30×24 cm
Format: Linen Softcover
Condition: New
In the 1980s, Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller spent long periods away from home, working with directors such as Alex Cox and Wim Wenders on landmark films including Repo Man, Paris, Texas, Barfly, and To Live and Die in L.A.
After long days on set, he stayed at the Kensington Motel in Santa Monica, a modest apartment hotel near Ocean Boulevard and the beach. He was drawn to its simple comforts—an ironing board folded into the wall, coffee on the stove, and Garfield, the hotel cat—which gave it a sense of familiarity rather than transience.
Müller always carried his SX-70 Polaroid camera, making quiet photographs during moments of rest. As William Friedkin noted, he brought “a foreigner’s eye” to America, attentive to overlooked details and guided by light and colour. These images capture a now-vanished Los Angeles: small interiors, beach edges, street corners, and a car-built city seen by someone who preferred to walk—revealing a search for calm and light in the spaces between.
Edited and introduced by Andrea Müller-Schirmer and designed by Linda van Deursen, the book is printed in Italy and bound in a flexible chopped-linen softcover, silk-screened in sunlit orange. Alongside Müller’s photographs are texts by collaborators including Alex Cox, Wim Wenders, and Willem Dafoe.
Publisher: STANLEY/BARKER
Measurements: 30×24 cm
Format: Linen Softcover
Condition: New
In the 1980s, Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller spent long periods away from home, working with directors such as Alex Cox and Wim Wenders on landmark films including Repo Man, Paris, Texas, Barfly, and To Live and Die in L.A.
After long days on set, he stayed at the Kensington Motel in Santa Monica, a modest apartment hotel near Ocean Boulevard and the beach. He was drawn to its simple comforts—an ironing board folded into the wall, coffee on the stove, and Garfield, the hotel cat—which gave it a sense of familiarity rather than transience.
Müller always carried his SX-70 Polaroid camera, making quiet photographs during moments of rest. As William Friedkin noted, he brought “a foreigner’s eye” to America, attentive to overlooked details and guided by light and colour. These images capture a now-vanished Los Angeles: small interiors, beach edges, street corners, and a car-built city seen by someone who preferred to walk—revealing a search for calm and light in the spaces between.
Edited and introduced by Andrea Müller-Schirmer and designed by Linda van Deursen, the book is printed in Italy and bound in a flexible chopped-linen softcover, silk-screened in sunlit orange. Alongside Müller’s photographs are texts by collaborators including Alex Cox, Wim Wenders, and Willem Dafoe.
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