Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
German, b. 1968
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 d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Untitled (Olancha) - Stranger than Paradise - analog C-Print based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Olancha) - 2006
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 822.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Lonely Hearts DJ (The Girl...) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Lonely Hearts DJ (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2014
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dreamgirl I (29 Palms, CA) - analog, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamgirl II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 2/10,
58x56cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Signe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fabien I (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fabien I (The Last Picture Show) 2005 -
38x36cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Crystal Paper, based on an original Polaroid.
Certificate...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Birds (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Birds (Haley and the birds) - 2013
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Birds (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Birds (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Princess Kiss - The Princess and her Lover, analog, not mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Princess Kiss (The Princess and her Lover), 2009,
Edition of 2/5,
100x98cm
analog C-Print based, printed by the artist, on a Polaroid,
not mounted,
Signature label and Certi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Frozen IV (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frozen IV (Last Picture Show) - 2001
20 x 20 cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Afternoon Drifter (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Afternoon Drifter (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 1012.
S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Love (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory # 84...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Angel (Heavenly Falls)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Angel (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 9069.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Man and A Woman (Sidewinder) including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Man and A Woman (Sidewinder) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Later that Day (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Later that Day (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.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha doing her Nails II - Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid, Photograph, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha doing her Nails II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition of 10,
50x49cm,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory 18391.
Not mount...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Patriot (Haley and the Birds) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Patriot (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Abreaction (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abreaction (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Owen
s Valley (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Owen's Valley (Last Picture Show), 20 x 20 cm, 2001
Edition 5/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 1088.05, not mounted
Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
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 d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
Exhibitions Selected (selected)
2018
Participation Bombay Beach Biennale, Bombay Beach, USA (G) March
Available to All, Rough Play Projects - Site Specific, Joshou Tree, USA (G) curated by Deborah Martin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Closer (Sidewinder) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Closer (Sidewinder) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
100x60cm includin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
There are no Telegraphs (Ensign Broderick record Shoot
Blood Crush
)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tralfamadorians (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.
Signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid
Waiting III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot
Blood Crush
) - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting III (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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Roads where we
re going (Ensign Broderick record Shoot
Blood Crush
)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roads where we're going (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
48x60cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Night and Day (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Night and Day (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cloudless Heavens (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cloudless Heavens (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Shack (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Shack (Sidewinder)
2005, Edition of 2/10, 38x48cm,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3227.02.
n...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Valley (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Valley - (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1233.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Published in: WASTELANDS, published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph)
Exhibited:
Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007), Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) (2012)
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 registered 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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Seagull (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Seagull (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 197.
Not moun...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Party Is Over (Oxana’s 30th..) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Party Is Over (Oxana’s 30th Birthday) - 2007
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 20...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Henry (Stay) - starring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I don
t like it (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I don't like it (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
In Hiding (29 Palms, CA) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Hiding (29 Palms, CA) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #5723.
Not...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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. 214...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rodeo Grounds (Till Death...) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rodeo Grounds (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2010
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
It
s over! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It's over! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nail Polish (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nail Polish (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x37cm.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #1375.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Precious (Stage of Consciousness) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Precious (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
fe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
End of the Road (Sidewinder) including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
End of the Road (Sidewinder) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I don
t believe what you say to me anymore (Till Death do Us Part) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I don't believe what you say to me anymore (Till Death do Us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wonder Valley Music (29 Palms, CA)- including the book "A Half Forgotten Dream"
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley Music (29 Palms, CA) - 2014
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flick (The Girl ...) including the book "A Half Forgotten Dream"
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flick (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collecti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tomorrow (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tomorrow (The Last Picture Show) - 2000
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 2750.
Signature l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I feel so alone! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I feel so alone! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
It Rains on our Love (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It rains on our love (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2008
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Outtake (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outtake - (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 819.
Signature label and cer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jules and Jim (Renée’s Dream) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jules and Jim II (Renée’s Dream) - 2006
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Can
t take my Eyes off you (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Can't take my Eyes off you (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gossip (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gossip (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm each, 20x45cm installed.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Courtyard (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Courtyard (Suburbia) - 2004,
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 432.
Not mounted.
This proje...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rendering Memories II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory #13388.
Not mounted.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer.
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal.
(Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film.
“There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal.
The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film.
Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.”
Film features
original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory Gaps (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Gaps (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory #13359.
Not mounted.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer.
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal.
(Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film.
“There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal.
The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film.
Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.”
Film features
original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
It’s Written in the Moonlight - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It’s Written in the Moonlight (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Co...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Snow Silence (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snow Silence (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005
20x20cm, (each)
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Slow Days (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Slow Days (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Our desert is the fucking palace of pussy, darling! - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Our desert is the fucking palace of pussy, darling! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I need to save myself (Till death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I need to save myself (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9311.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Letter- including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Letter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Little Darlings (Till Death...) - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Little Darlings (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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