Stefanie Schneider Figurative Photography

Officer's Wives Club (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999 Edition of 23/25, 40x40cm each, installed 40x87cm, including gap. 2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 2 Polaroids. Signed on back with Certificate. Artist inventory number: 316. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. 29 PALMS, CA is a film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The world depicted in the film is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. The characters portrayed in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic, a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on), are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real-life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense, the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them. The structure of the plot is fairly simple. An actress working as a telemarketer is inspired by a singer who is new to town and is featured on the local radio station. The radio station runs a program for lonely hearts and a charismatic DJ uses the show to reveal the hopes and dreams of the town's “hottest women”. One night a panicked German female caller captivates the community with a painful story about a sexy “Smoke Jumper” (a mysterious and super real alpha male). Everybody in town is listening to the program and nobody is quite sure what to say. Life in general continues and we witness and explore the various interactions. The actress meets the singer and they become famous. The US Army soldier dies on his way to battle. The foreign princess discovers that the jewels she has come to sell are fake. The motel owner‘s wife has an affair with the pool boys and so on. All the while the community is united by their loyalty to the “Lonely Hearts” radio show and through the disturbing revelations of the German woman...

Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 125x154cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Certifi...

Childhood Memories (Stay) from the Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, 2006, 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. ...

'Tears' - 2013 (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) 75x93cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, b...

OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999, 20 x 20 cm, Edition 5/10, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid Artist Inventory 3182.18. Not mounted Stefanie Schneider's s...

Traces of Tears (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record shoot in 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label...

The Dancer (Stay), 2006, 37x36cm, Edition of 2/5, Lambda Print, based on a Stefanie Schneider expired Polaroid photograph Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 5315.10...

White Plastic Bucket (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence. 2006, 85x85cm, 4 pieces, each 39x38.5cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Prints, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crysta...

Girl at Fence (Last Picture Show) - 2005 58x56cm, Edition 1/5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Artist inventory number:...

Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist...

Exercise (Suburbia) - 2004, 38x36cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid. Artist Inventory #20953. Signature label with Certificate, unmounted. The project...

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...

Margarita Smokes in Bathroom (Till Death do us Part), 2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, printed by the artist, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection based on an o...

Margarita Smokes in Bathroom II (Till Death do us Part), 2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, printed by the artist, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on a...