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Period: Late 20th Century
Slim Aarons Kaufmann Desert House 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Kaufmann Desert House' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessm...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Von Oswald House 1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Von Oswald House' A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Guests At Villa Nirvana' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978. 40 x 30" inches / 101...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Porto Ercole 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm Estate Stampe...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Elephant Walk, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin's vil...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 50x49cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Just Landed (Long Way Home) - featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Just Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999 featuring Radha Mitchell 57x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #260. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Gas station at Night II (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gas Station at Night I (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 37x36cm, Edition of 30, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #391. Not...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Leixlip Castle 1990 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Leixlip Castle circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes An oil painting, various saddles and an old trunk in Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) ...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

San Bernadino (Drive to the Desert) - analog hand-print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
San Bernadino (Drive to the Desert) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on vers...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Stefanie in 29 Palms, CA (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie in 29 Palms, CA (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 Edition 4/5, 44x59cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Sig...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Scorpion (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Scorpion (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/3. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and C...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Holland Canal, Netherlands
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Currently framed in custom white wood. See photograph of the piece on the wall.
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Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper

Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. This is an...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marlboro from Stranger than Paradise - last Artist Proof 2/2
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Marlboro' (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 sold out Edition of 5, This is the last Artist Proof 2/2, 50x60cm analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist not mounted signature Label...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in ...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Party In Bermuda, Estate Edition (1970 on the Yacht Ondine in yellow and red)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic photograph of 70's vintage seagoing glamour, captured onboard the wood-trimmed deck of the yacht 'Ondine' in Bermuda, June 1970. Figures in the foreground are offset by cheery yellow and red. A United States yacht ensign flag flies the foreground, alongside the flag of Scania, the flag of the Swedish-speaking Finns (an unofficial red flag with a yellow cross used in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland to represent the Finland-Swedes., which may be flown in addition to the Finnish blue and white flag). Guests wear coral, navy, pastels, and whites, including classic vintage Pucci. The ship's name and home marina of New York are stenciled in gold on the white hull. Slim Aarons Party in Bermuda...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Campbell Kitchen (29 Palms, CA) - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Campbell Kitchen (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 1/10, 65x60cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on the Polaroid with ...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Metal

Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, Australia
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somewhere in Australia, 1995 - 20x32cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Renée s Dream XI (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XI (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. Signature label ...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Slim Aarons Swimming In Bermuda 1977 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Swimming In Bermuda' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests on Sidney Gould’s ‘Sea Quest’ boat take a dip in the ocean, Bermuda, September 1977. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 7...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Poolside In Arizona 1973 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Arizona' Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Von Oswald House 1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Von Oswald House' A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink Flower Carpet (Zuma Beach) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pink Flower Carpet (Zuma Beach) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back and Certificate. Artist Inventory #22...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Stardust (Vegas) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stardust (Las Vegas) - 1999, 44x59cm, Edition 5/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #553.0...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Slim Aarons Portofino 1985 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Portofino' 1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Interstate 10 Overpass (Drive to the Desert) - analog hand-print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Interstate 10 Overpass (Drive to the Desert) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signe...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Paris, France, Black-and-White Photography, Rooftops, Architecture, Cities
Located in New york, NY
An iconic black-and-white image from the 1980s in France, a rooftop vista from an 11th "arrondissement" (district) apartment window Paris Rooftops, 1988 by Roberta Fineberg is an 11"...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Somewhere in Australia
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somewhere in Australia, 1995 - 46x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 24" x 20" paper size Photo by Sl...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. 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, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Pool at Las Hadas, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Lambda

Skiing At St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978. This is an estate stamped and h...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Lambda

Washington Square with Trade Center Towers II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Wolf von dem Bussche American (born Germany) 1934-2014 Title: Washington Square with Trade Center Towers II Year: 1976 Medium: Gelatin Sil...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons, The High Life Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
American actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat with friends Ruth Luthi and Mike Belami, during a stay in St Tropez, France, August 1977. Slim Aarons The High Lif...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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C Print

Mindscreen 12 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 12 - 1999 126x126cm with white frame, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. artist Inventory N...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certi...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in Venice - analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees in Venice (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition 3/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bryce Canyon National Park, Desert Red Rocks Landscape Color Photograph, Signed
Located in Soquel, CA
An epic desert landscape photograph of dramatic rock formations bathed in a glowing orange light in Southern Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park by David Benitez (Puerto Rico, Californ...
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American Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

I wie Ikarus - Stranger than Paradise
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I wie Ikarus (Stranger than Paradise), 1999 43x49cm Edition of 10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artis...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 24" x 20" paper size Photo by Sl...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Porto Ercole Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Italy A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. Beautiful greens of the sea water contrast with the...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Wildflowers (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wildflowers (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, Edition 5/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inven...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Beach Porto Ercole Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Beach, Porto Ecole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano, Vintage Glamour, 70s...
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American Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Lambda

Island, Richmond Park, Surrey, England
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Cadiz, California
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Antony Zega (1962-2019). Cadiz, 1987. Photographic print, 10 x 10 inches. Mounted to acid free matting board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Unsigned. Estate stamp on verso.
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Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Guests At Villa Nirvana' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978. 40 x 60" inches / 102...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Kaufmann Desert House 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Kaufmann Desert House' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessm...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Happy
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Happy - 2001 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certifi...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Eden-Roc Hotel du Cap 1976 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper si...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Reflection, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Mt. Mostag (Muztagh) and Wild camels
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Mt. Mostag (Muztagh) and Wild camels" China. c.1990, is a photograph by noted artist Keith Guo Ji Liang, b.1946. It is hand signed and titled in pencil on the ma...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Other Medium

AA Motel, Holdrege, Nebraska, May 22, 1981
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Vanishing Vernacular series. Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and ...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Turning (Zuma Beach) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Turning (Zuma Beach) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 111.04. ...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Couples (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Couples (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Trains (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Trains (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Labe...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana  is a vintage photograph realized in the Late 1970s. Good conditions.
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper