Stefanie Schneider Black and White Photography

For The Animals Shall Not Be Measured By Man - 2017 (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. ...

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

Genie (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label...

No End (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature labe...

Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3558. Not mounted. STEFANIE SCHNEIDER ON THE WEST, NOSTALGIA AND INSTANT DREAMS Stefanie Schneider captures the Western mentality and landscapes, archetypical histories of love, flawed beauty, and how women coddle chickens through her lens. She projects the life she yearns to live, the love she hopes to embody and receive, and the lust for both from within her onto her images. The results display burned spots in print or hazy and overlapping gradients of light, the signature she created for herself and her audience. These flaws, as she dubs them, manifest a mythlike dream Stefanie imagines for herself and those around her, ushering them into a discrepancy between light and darkness in photographic styles and the human psyche. The German photographer works on self-portraiture as she poses for most of her projects, always infusing every shot with her views on life, love, and nostalgia. As she taps into her realm, Stefanie’s flair for memories and bygone eras - plus an old ranch...

Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. ...

Forgotten Land (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10898. Not moun...

Sunny (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory 20232. Signature label and Certificate. Not m...

Tralfamadorians (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signa...

The Rockstar (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatur...

Waiting II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature ...

Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. ...

Outtake (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 5, 128x125cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number 819.01, complete with certificate and signature label Not mounted For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. purchase the 2nd edition and have it unmounted. Exhibited: Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007) Published in: WASTELANDS published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph) Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had regis- tered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pic- tures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were begin- ning to look up. That’s when the shooting started… Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila. Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abol- ish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and story line, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end-result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowl- edges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty. She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other- worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period...

A Vision you can't capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 38 x 50 cm, Edition of 30. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 41...

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 21292. Not mounted. The simplicity of 'flawed beauty' comes from the expired film I use to create a reflection of love and loneliness.
 The dream is actually turning into a nightmare. It's easier to deny than to utter the truth of defeat. (ruin). 
That we are all finite is irrefutable but we just don't want to believe it. I chose Polaroid film because it portrays color like candy making...

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

Forgotten Land (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10907. Not mounted....

General Store (29 Palms, CA), 2007, 38x49cm, Edition 4/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based ...

Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 355...

Amboy Road (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 1090...

Forgotten Land (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10899. Not mounted....

Amboy Salt Flats (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No...

Vanishing Point (The Princess and her Lover) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2010 Edition of 1/5, 125x123cm. Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist and based on a Polaroid....

Zoe and Charlie Brown (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2016 Edition of 10, 20x24cm. Archival C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Signature and Certificate. Artist inv...

Listening (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 - 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory 20248. Signature label and Certificate. No...

Maiden Dance (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 Edition of 10, 50x50cm, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory 20216. Not mounted. The 'Chicks and Chi...

Roys (California Badlands) - 2010 50x60cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10901. Not mounted. Stefanie ...

California Depression (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10895. Not mo...

Amboy Salt Flats (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No...

Charlie Brown with Bob and Liz (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) 2016, 20x24 cm, Edition of 10, archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature and Certificate. Artist in...