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Item Ships From: California
Tell me what I am to do (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tell me what I am to do' (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #932...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

How can you do this to me? (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you do this to me? (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #88...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Outback Dreams (29 Palms CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outback Dreams - 29 Palms, CA - 2010 50x130cm. Archival C-Print, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory # 1933. Not mounted. THE G...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Gasoline IIb (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gasoline IIb (Stranger than Paradise) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #270b Not mounte...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Indian Summer VII (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Indian Summer VII (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label Arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Seascape VI - large format photograph of cloudscape horizon and endless sea
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of large scale photographs capturing a mesmerizing color palette of classic blue and sky tones SEASCAPE VI by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm signed edit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Star Wars R2-D2 - large format photograph of the original iconic droid robot
By Tom Schierlitz
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale still life photograph of the original iconic droid robot from the classic Star Wars movies Star Wars (R2-D2) by Tom Schierlitz 60 x 48 inches (152 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm) signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Palm Tree Restaurant (Stranger Than Paradise) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Tree Restaurant (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 40x40cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Cloud Study VI - large scale photograph of dramatic momochromatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
An homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Pacific Ocean, from a series of dramatic cloud atlas observations and abstract skyscapes above the winter sea, c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Cold Song III - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
'Cold Song III' exemplifies the avant-garde evolution of underwater fine art photography, merging contemporary conceptual art with technical mastery. This ethereal composition captur...
Category

2010s Photorealist California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
Category

1960s Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Coming Back - underwater photograph - print on aluminum 36"x26"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Coming Back" captures a transformative moment in contemporary underwater fine art photography, where classical composition meets avant-garde expression. A figure in crimson emerges ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Coney Island Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Coney Island Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 2292 Not mounted...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

It s gonna be ok (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It's gonna be ok (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 Inve...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Coney Island (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Coney Island (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 2266 Not mounted. Stefanie Sch...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Henry and Athena - Henry s Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and Athena - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006 featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Sunset (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4630. Not mounted. The...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie on Sofa beaten (29 Palms, CA) - Analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie on Sofa beaten (29 Palms, CA) - 1998 58x56cm, Edition of 10, analog C-Print, printed by the Artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate, artist invent...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Barcelona - interior architecture and furniture of iconic midcentury pavillion
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Limited edition architectural interior photograph of the iconic mid century modern "Barcelona Pavilion", designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, director of the Bauhaus, who envisioned...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Bauhaus California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Alexander and Roehm
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Alexander and Roehm' (Tulum) Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2011, Archival Pigment Print on Velvet Watercolor Paper, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Tao Ruspoli directed Alex Ebert's music video "Truth". The song was later used to great effect in a season finale of Breaking Bad...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Mare (Mascagni) - large scale photograph of abstract Italian sky in Mascagni
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mare (Mascagni) by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 40 x 32 inches / 102cm x 81cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print limit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

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 California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

The Dance (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Dance (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Before (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Before (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 18740. Signature label and Cert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Nail Polish (Beachshoot)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nail Polish (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color 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 California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Helen Nelda by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (left) talking to Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category

1970s Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

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 California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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.
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Casa Malaparte - large photograph of iconic Mediterranean villa on Capri Island
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic Italian architecture by architect Adalberto Libera for writer Curzio Malaparte on the Mediterranean island of Capri, Italy, famous film location of Jean-Luc Godard's movie 'Contempt' starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang and Jack Palance Casa Malaparte...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Stardust - extra large format photograph of Marfa Sign and Horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Stardust by Frank Schott 48 x 48 inches / 122cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 40 x 40 inches / 102cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print limited ar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Seascape Xl Triptych - large format photographs of blue water surface + horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes Seascape XI - Triptych by Frank Schott 3 individual large format photographs of blue water surface...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Flight of Stairs II - featuring Naomi Watts - 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Julia II - Contemporary, Photograph, Portrait, Color
By Cristina Fontsare
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Julia (2011)
 from the series 'I am not promising a wonderful World' 50 x 75 cm, Edition of 2/5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital Photography printed on Canson Barita 310gr (not mounted)...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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 California - Color 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 California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Squaw Valley Snow, California, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Squaw Valley Snow, California, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the deserted ...
Category

1960s American Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Silver Bullet (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Silver Bullet (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 23475. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. 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. Dustbowl 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 pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning 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 abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, 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 acknowledges 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 glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy. That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

It s Going to Be OK (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It's Going to Be OK (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 23890. Signature l...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

More than This - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
More of This (Bombay Beach) - 2024 48x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL2...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Shangri-La (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shangri-La (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Sudden Urge (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sudden Urge (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 809. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. 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. Dustbowl 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 pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning 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 abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, 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 acknowledges 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 glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy. That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Diane Keaton, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of famous American actress Diane Keaton...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

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 ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Madonna - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Madonna - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #335 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider's scint...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69" / 122 x 175cm
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
PROJECT 12:31 [ HOUSE ] by Frank Schott long exposure light drawings using motion graphics of scientific scans to recreate the human form 48" x 69" / 122cm x 175cm edition of 7 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual California - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Play among the Stars (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 labe...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

The price of Beauty - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Price of Beauty - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-921. Not mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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