Andreas Muller-Pohle

(German, b. 1951)

Digital Scores V (after Nicephore Niepce), 2001

In Andreas Müller-Pohle’s view, digital work is the purest form of the photographic medium, owing to its universality. Made in the mid- to late-1990s, his Digital Scores pieces are digital interpretations of the earliest known photograph, Nicéphore Niépce’s View from his Study, taken in 1826. In these works, Müller-Pohle has digitized Niépce’s photograph (which presumably had an eight-hour exposure time), translated it into alphanumeric signs, and output it as ink-jet prints.

Andreas Müller-Pohle was born in Brunswick, Germany in 1951. He studied economics and communications at the University of Hannover and the Universtiy of Göttingen. A writer, philosopher, critic, and photographer, he has been editing and publishing the magazine European Photography since its inception in 1980. Müller-Pohle has exhibited widely at many institutions, including Goethe-Institute, Atlanta; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; and Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels. His works are in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Since 1997 he has been guest professor at the Higher Institute for fine Arts, Antwerp. Müller-Pohle lives in Berlin.

Amelunxen, H.V. Andras Muller-Pohle: Interfaces. European Photography v. 19/20 no. 64/65 (Winter 1998/Wummer 1999) p. 74-80

Garza, M. Festivities. Afterimage v. 29 no. 6 (May/June 2002) p. 2

Muller-Pohle, A. Philosopher of the Apparatus. European Photography v. 22 no. 70 (Winter 2001/2002) p. 5-6

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