Andreas Müller-Pohle
Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and publisher. He studied Economics and Communication Sciences at the Universities of Hanover and Göttingen. In 1979, he founded European Photography , an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. Müller-Pohle has edited the major works of Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser and including the seminal Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie [Towards a Philosophy of Photography], which has been translated into over twenty languages. With the publication of Flusser’s essay Die Schrift: Hat Schreiben Zukunft [Does Writing Have a Future] in 1986, he is one of the pioneers of today’s e-book.
In 2001, Müller-Pohle was awarded the European Photography Prize by the Reind M. De Vries Foundation. He is the author of numerous texts on photo theory, among others on “Visualism,” and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at, among others, the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, and the Hong Kong Design Institute.