Lucas Samaras Portrait Photography

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...

Cornell Capa Marilyn Monroe on the set of 'The Misfits', 1960 Gelatin silver print Framed Dimensions: 16.5 x 20.25 inches (41.9 x 51.4 cm) Image Dimensions: 12.25 x 8.25 inches (31...

A Million Pieces (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...

Shadows (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 #35...

'North Shore Yacht Club I' - Salton Sea (California Badlands) - 1998 50x60cm with white border, Image size: 48x46cm, Edition 2/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 585.02, Not mounted. The artist Stefanie Schneider has produced a unique body of work because she was the first to utilize expired Polaroid instant photography. Embracing the ‘imperfections’ this medium can produce Stefanie’s artwork was the inspiration of Instagram and the catalyst that motivated Dr. Florian Kaps to rescue the sole remaining Polaroid film production factory in Holland. Saving the last production equipment just before their planned destruction, therefore saving millions of vintage Polaroid cameras from obsolescence. Hows that for an artist having an effect on her medium of choice! The ‘Impossible film project’ saved the production factory and then a Polish business man bought ‘Impossible film’ and the actual Polaroid company to bring the two back together resulting in the so called ‘Polaroid Originals’ and giving it to his millennial son. (I hear he might also get Fuji film company for Christmas) Stefanie Schneider purchases Polaroid instant film and uses it only at it’s best possible outcome for her planned film shoots. The location, sets, costumes, actors and stories all come from Schneider but that’s just the beginning. The stories and their production take place in the high desert near Joshua Tree in California but the post production is in Berlin, Germany. The chosen photographs are rephotographed to make a negative. Following with the analogue medium, Schneider enlarges and prints old school in a self designed and built analogue darkroom in an old factory studio in Berlin. The largest of her hand printed art works measure 125cm or 49 inches in width with her vintage ‘Colenta’ developing machine. Schneider designed and built her own enlarger to properly fit her concept with the biggest ‘Durst’ enlarger ever built and turned on it’s side so as to print even bigger than was possible in it’s original design and rolls on custom tracks. Schneider created a film production movie set for her biggest film concepts from all her proceeds on an organic (off grid) farm in California where she eats only what she grows. Complete with garden, greenhouse and chicken coop. (It’s also a sanctuary for animals as no meat consumption is permitted) Vintage travel trailers dot the farm where production ideas develop. a costume trailer, film storage in the vintage refrigerators...

Oasis IX (Sidewinder) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #300...

Ravished (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 #9...

Elsewhere (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 40x30cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...

Oasis XV (Sidewinder) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #301...

Oasis X (Sidewinder) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #3010...

Bus Depot (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1208...

Radha Mitchell on the Set of 'The Crazies'' - 2009 24x30cm Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory 11678. not moun...