Art by Medium: Polaroid

Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4600. Signat...

'Love Scene against the Wall" (Sidewinder) - 2007, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 x 20x20cm, 20 x 100 cm installed with gaps in between each piec...

Pull II - 2017 20x20cm, Edition 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-487. Ki...

Fly Away Home, 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x20cm. Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted....

Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005 Edition of 5, 156x125cm. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3094. Not mounted. "...

Portal (2020) Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on the reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mounted). Signed on b...

image size: 8 x 10 inches Standing Young Nude Man Polaroid Transfer on 22 x 15 inch Rives BFK paper, unframed signed SM Beard in pencil on bottom left corner. ed. 1/6 This is one i...

Let it be (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...

Disco Queen (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

Steam - 2017, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-132. Not m...

Treasure II (Stage of Consciousness) 29 Palms, CA, 2007, 75x93cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Sign...

The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression) - 2004 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Prints based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate...

So Still (Sidewinder) - 2005 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x20cm, Edit...

Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004 50x50cm, Edition of 10, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1222. Not mounted. OILFIELDS, 2004 ...

Gabriela at Eleven - 2019 40x48cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Baryta Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mou...

Fairytales (dyptych) - 2006 Edition of 30, 38x36cm each, 38x85cm installed, including gaps. 2 Archival Prints based on 2 Polaroids. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inv...

'Hidden' 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2016-7807 Kirsten Thy...

A Vision you can't Capture #04 (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 A piece from the 29 Palms, CA project 40x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. A...

Tell me what I am to do (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition 2/10. Digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 932...

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #6328 Not mounted. ...

Maidens (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...

Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 50x60cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 2823. Signature lab...

'Oblivion' part of the series 'The crazy Adventures of David C.' - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and...

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 40x40cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...

Trial and error - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-947...

Last Tango (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature...

Marrying an Apple Tree (Negative) - 2020 60x50cm, Edition of 10. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta (glossy), based on a Peel Apart Polaroid Film (not mounted). Signed on...

Born to be Wild - 2014 30x30cm, Edition 3/10. Archival color print on Pearl photo paper, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back. Not mounted. Whether in color and black and white, van Driessche’s photos marry the atmospheric qualities of integral and instant pack films with the sensuality of his models. The effect is often painterly, intimate, delicate. The softness and vulnerability of the nude feminine form is often juxtaposed with untamed landscapes or graphic urban architecture. Other photos in the series read like fine art paintings, with luminous colors and classic compositions. Van Driessche has traveled all over the world, taking photos wherever he goes. These days, he often schedules photo shoots with models when he travels, working with both professionals and amateurs. Despite being a perfectionist in his photography, van Driessche likes the unpredictable nature of expired film. He embraces its inherent perfections. He says it is thrilling when an instant photo develops before your eyes, and it happens to be exactly what you were hoping for. And equally frustrating when, for whatever reason, the photo just doesn’t work. He says that you have to be very sure of everything, the composition, the lighting, the poses, before pushing the button. Instant photography requires more thought and more patience than other forms of photography, but the rewards are worth the effort. His work has been widely featured, having appeared in Dreck Magazine, Tata Magazine, 100 Volume 1, Latent Magazine, Hylas Magazine, and Fine Art Photo Magazine. He has been interviewed by the on-line magazines Whataroll and Kaltblut and he recently participated in a group exhibition at the Brick Lane Gallery in London in March 2017. Van Driessche cites these photographers as his influences: Anton Corbjin, for his square format and black and white images; Helmut Newton for his nudes; Stephanie Schneider...

In Other Words (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...

Miranda - Shot 2017 on 600 Film Influenced directly by Australian New Wave Cinema and the films of Peter Weir where the protagonists are profoundly affected...

Side Effects (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invent...

The Dwell - 2018 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, based on the Mixed Media collage of a Spectra Polaroid and glitter. Si...

Surrender - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-900. Not mounted. Ki...

Thirst (Bombay All Day) - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventor...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...

Daunting (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 30x30cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #9...

Snow Silence (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist invento...

Musing - 2019 48x46cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL219-659. Not mounted. ...

Untitled (The Last Picture Show), 2005 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original SX-70 Polaroid. Inventory No. 781.02. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland...

Oleander (Life on Mars) - 2024 20x20m, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 22313....

Hidden Valley (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 78x77cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Signature label and Certificate. artist Inventor...

The Visit, 2018, Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm - Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on back and certificate. Clare's work is presented in...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatu...

M (Immaculate Springs) - 1998 - 20x20cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory...

Horizonte (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - 2019 Edition of 10. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mount...

Musing (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 24x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Invento...

'Girls' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 9361.08 Not mount...

Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 125x154cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, artist inventory numbe...

Lazuli - Edition of 10 - 20x20 cm Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid photograph, not mounted. Signed on back and certificate. Clare Marie Bailey Works and Lives: UK Clare Marie...

Summer Interlude II (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Art...

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

"4 Corners I" (Last Picture Show) - 2005 58x57cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on a Polaroid, Not m...

Radio Show (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - diptych 40x95cm including the white frame, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Pola...

Low Gain Series, 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x50cm, Digital Print based on a Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signed on back with certificate. A...

Playgirl (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 50x50cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19598. Not mounted. ...

Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. She also created the art for several dream sequences and the ...

Magic Mountain III (Memories of Green) - 2003 Edition of 10, 58x56cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. based on an expired Polaroid, Artist...

Downfall (Bombay Beach) - 2023 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2023-13. ...

Gasoline III (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition 10, 120x120cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, Not mounted, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 271.01 Exhibition photos from the solo show 'Rough Cuts' at the Susanne Vielmetter gallery, LA Projects. The works of Stefanie Schneider evoke Ed Ruscha's obsession with the American experience, the richness of Georgia O'Keefe's deserts and the loneliness of Edward Hopper's haunting paintings. So how exactly did this German photographer become one of the most important artists of the American narrative of the 20th and 21st century? In this captivating artwork, we are drawn into the enigmatic world captured by Stefanie Schneider, where a solitary man, lost in his own thoughts, embarks on a journey while engulfed in a cloud of smoke...