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Item Ships From: USA
Materia V, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mikael Kenta, a fashion and art photographer, is inspired by his deep knowledge of fine art printing and his pursuit of high-quality productions. His work fuses art and profession, r...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Window Dreams
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's
Window Dreams - Fenstertraumbilder
These slides can be used for your personal window or your office door.
They give privacy and stil...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid, Film, Emulsion
Elvis Presley, The Sea. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
By Paloma Castello
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castelloland works with objects whose uniqueness is fundamental to the narrative of each story, as each image reacts and develops through the interaction between the word and the obj...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Vantage Point - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Vantage Point' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL219-687...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Steve McQueen with 1962 Land Rover Series by Julian Wasser
By Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
Available sizes:
20 x 16 inches
Artist Bio:
After starting his career at the age of 14 as a copy boy in the Washington bureau of the Associa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
World-Class Racing Yachts at Start of the Regatta, Black and White Photography
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"At the Start"
In this best-selling image, the racing yachts Velsheda, Ranger, and Rainbow wait for the start of a race in Italy.
The nautical print series Sail: Majesty at Sea is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portriat of Tom Petchlsig
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Tom Petchlsig, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8 x 10 inches; 16 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stamp on ve...
Category
1970s Realist USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$540 Sale Price
40% Off
Iconic Profile Portrait of a Sable Island Horse, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Regal"
Ethereal and meditative, a lone wild horse enjoys the breeze on Sable Island.
The print series Discovering the Horses of Sable Island documents one of the last herds of com...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Half Angels Half Demons #23 and #22 Yoga posture portraits color photographs
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marbella From Iconic Series, Large Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Paris, France, Cities, Portrait Photograph, Girl with Bows, Limited Edition
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image shot on film in Paris, France in the 1980s, Roberta Fineberg’s subject is a young French-African girl with braids, ribbons, and bows that RF photographed in f...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Speckles (Sidewinder), diptych - Analog Hand-Prints, Mounted, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Speckles (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005,
127x126 each, installed 127x265cm,
Edition of 5,
2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
based on 2 P...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
10525 (Stranger than Paradise, ) Edition 8/10 - 5 analog C-Prints
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
10525 (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999,
Edition 9/10,
5 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 5 Polaroids.
each 57x56 cm, installed with gaps 57x308cm.
Certific...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Woman in Kenya Wearing Tribal Jewelry, Black and White Photography, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Adorned"
This fashion-inspired, award-winning black and white profile portrait of a young Rendille woman shows the delicate yet bold ornamentation that her remote tribal community ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Keith Haring 1 - NYC, 1985 hand signed, numbered twice; hand painted wood frame
By Richard Corman
Located in New York, NY
Richard Corman
Keith Haring 1 - NYC, 1985 (hand signed twice), 2022
Photographic print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultrasmooth paper mounted on Dibond aluminum board. (Hand signed and nu...
Category
2010s Pop Art USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico. Black and white Portrait photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Other Art Style USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 35x50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,100 Sale Price
21% Off
France, Black-and-White Portrait Photography, Woman in French Countryside
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
Countryside, 1988 by Roberta Fineberg is a black-and-white documentary-style portrait of a French woman in the countryside. In northeast France, the Haute-Marne, the subject is photographed against a backdrop of fresh-cut hay. Far from Paris the French maintain deep connections to the land - owning often an ancestral home in the countryside, rustic and rooted in the agrarian.
Countryside is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver print (analog/film) in an edition of 5. The photograph is signed on recto (in margin) by the artist.
Provenance: RF Studio
***
Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, the development of ideas and color fields for her mixed media works. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF’s selected exhibitions: Women of Spirit Zurcher Gallery New York (2025); Sojourner Gallery New York (2022); Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022); CADAF online art fair (2020); Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Safari From Iconic Series, Large Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Coke From Iconic Series, Medium Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Kind of Blue From Iconic Series, Medium Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Why Not From Iconic Series, Medium Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Yello. From Iconic Series, Medium Size
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” showed in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Chicago, Black and White Photography 1960s, Hugh Hefner at The Playboy Mansion
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Hugh Hefner, 1966 by Burt Glinn is a 16" x 20" portrait in Chicago, IL of the founder of playboy magazine. Hefner is on the phone on a circular bed surrou...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Iman, LA, 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 the famous model and ...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunday, Late Afternoon, Ojai building rooftop (California Blue Screen) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunday, Late Afternoon, Ojai building rooftop, 1997 (California Blue Screen)
Edition 1/5, 44x59 cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate a...
Category
1990s Outsider Art USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Laura (Woman
s head as seen thru water droplets which in turn are body parts)
By Rollin Leonard
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Laura" first looks like a color abstract. Then very slowly you realize it is an extreme close up of a young woman's face. Only slowly do the water droplets appear with each drople...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Sea Crown. Portrait. Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Pigment
Untitled 05 (Oxana
s 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 05 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
48x46cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Debbie Harry by Lynn Goldsmith, framed signed limited edition print
By Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art print of Debbie Harry of Blondie by acclaimed photographer. Lynn Goldsmith, taken in New York City in 1977.
Framed, signed limited edition 16x20" print, edition #2/20
Cust...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Aquarium (Stay) - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Aquarium (Stay) - 2006
Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1,
8.8 x 7.5 cm (image area)
10.6 x 8.6 cm ( including white Polaroid frame)
Artist Inv. #24837.
Signed on verso.
Not mounted...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Brad Pitt, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Printed later
Combined Edition 10
Also available in 101 x 127 cm 40 x 50 inch
and as combined Edition 25 in
40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch
50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
Black and white Portr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Castaway (Last Picture Show) - 1999
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Castaway (Last Picture Show) - 1999
40x40cm,
Edition of 10,
Lambda Print based on the Polaroid
Certificate and signature label
artist inventory number: 869.
Not mounted.
Instan...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
On the Rocks (Long Way Home) - analog, 58x57cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Rocks (Long Way Home) - 1999,
58x57cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print based on a Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper.
...
Category
1990s Pop Art USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tabboo! Stephen Tasjian. NYC. Girlfriend Series. B&W Portrait Photograph
By Michael James O’Brien
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural ...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Repose
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,200
Kabuki Starshine, Wigstock, NYC. Girlfriend Series. B&W Portrait Photograph
By Michael James O’Brien
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“Nobody wakes up looking like Dietrich or Garbo” - Kabuki Starshine
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work of...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
World Class Racing Yachts in Italy, Nautical, Horizontal, Iconic
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Rainbow Trailed"
The J-Class boats Rainbow and Velsheda sail at near impossible angles as the sailors freely dangle their feet over the edge of the deck.
This award-winning image is in the permanent collection of the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA.
The nautical print series Sail: Majesty at Sea is an intimate look at two revered racing boat...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
40x48cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 8648.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Yellow Bark, #2259 Homage to Horst P. Horst limited edition color photograph
By Natasha Zupan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Natasha Zupan's body of work, 'Homage to Horst P. Horst', explores the manipulation of surface texture, light, and the interweaving of time. She has incorporated found images in book...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed May 21, 1970. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes dire...
Category
1970s Pop Art USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Girlfriend, Portfolio of 9 Portraits, From The Girlfriend series, B&W photograph
By Michael James O’Brien
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural commentary. O’Brien's photographss highlig his ability to capture the human experience with depth and nuance. His involvement in activism, particularly with HIV/AIDS awareness and support, further informs his artistic perspective, making his work both impactful and deeply personal.
Michael James O’Brien draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural commentary. O'Brien produced a diverse body of photographic work, from still lifes and portraits to art documentation. He still uses film and works in medium and large formats. His themes are not classical, the artist prefers to portray extraordiary beuty, transgender people and still lifes. The artist's images have a sense of discovery and loss; absence and presence.
From the Series Girlfriend
Printed on Hahnemuhle fine art photo rag paper
Dimension for each print is 22 in. H x 17 in. W
(The overall size composition of the entire portfolio is: 66 in. H x 51 in. W)
Limited Edition of 10 + 2AP
All these portraits were made on tri-x BW film with a Pentax 6 x 7 photographed in Natural Light.
1. Lavinia (Girlfriend), NYC, 1992
“I came to Manhattan with just a handbag” - Lavinia Co-op
2. Ebony Jet (Girlfriend), NYC, 1992
“We’re all born naked, everything else is drag” - RuPaul Charles
3. Miss Guy (Girlfriend), NYC, 1992
“You’ve got your mother in a whirl; she’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl.”
- David Bowie, Rebel, Rebel
4. Ming Vauze (Benjamin Liu) NYC, 1992
“Impersonation is the supreme act of creation.”
- Yukio Mishima...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Rue Mouffetard, Paris. Triptych. Portraits. Black and White. Photographs
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Cologne, lives in a small room on Boulevard St-Marcel. Every weekend, he goes to the market on rue Mouffet...
Category
1960s Modern USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Maria and the Callas, #2268. Homage to Horst P. Horst limited edition photograph
By Natasha Zupan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Natasha Zupan's body of work, 'Homage to Horst P. Horst', explores the manipulation of surface texture, light, and the interweaving of time. She has incorporated found images in book...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Rue Mouffetard. Fashion. Black and White Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Cologne, lives in a small room on Boulevard St-Marcel. Every weekend, he goes to the market on rue Mouffet...
Category
1960s Modern USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Untitled 10 (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled 10' (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
20x20cm,
Edition of 5,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Not mounted,
Certificate and si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
David Bowie 1973 by Lynn Goldsmith
By Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art print of David Bowie by acclaimed photographer. Lynn Goldsmith. Taken in 1973 during the Spiders from Mars tour, and now available for the first time in black and white.
Ly...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
^Framed^ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Terry O
Neill - Estate Stamped - 7/50
By Terry O
Neill
Located in Chicago, IL
Actors Steve Martin and Michael Caine starring in Frank Oz’s film ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ in which the pair play competing con artists, Cote d’Azure, 1988.
Paper size: 20 H x 16 W...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jared Leto, 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 American actor and mu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Angel
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
These images were taken in Matador Schools and Military Boarding Schools over the course o...
Category
Early 2000s USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skull, Pharrell Williams portrait, from the series LIVE FOREVER. Mixed media
By Cristian Hunter
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Bermudan Hostess, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father's typical Bermudian house. She is wearing her ...
Category
1950s American Realist USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
After the Accident (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After the Accident (Suburbia) - 2004
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 1668.
Not mounte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Center - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Center (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10,
20x20cm.
Archival Print, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted on dibond with matte UV-Protection.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 1986.
Published in Stranger than Paradise, Hatje Cantz (monograph)
Stefanie Schneider: A Discovery on Polaroid.
An essay by Eugen Blume
How is it that the photographic works of Stefanie Schneider do not allow anything other than one single association, namely that of America? Because they were taken in America itself? That fact alone would not yet be a compelling argument. Many photographs of America possess a reckless ambivalence which allows even the different country of their own particular creator to seem so similar as to be confused with America itself. Does this ambiguity have something to do with the ongoing, accelerating Americanization of the entire world? Or is it simply connected with our personal clichés which we attribute to a country the size of North America as valid expressions of its very essence, thereupon negligently allowing it not only to dwindle down into any size whatever, but also to expand to a great extent, from Germany by way of Luxembourg right through to Japan?
Now it is certainly true that the figures of Thelma and Louise in the desert do not represent an American reality, not even after their resurrection as Radha and Max in the series 29 Palms from 1999. Strangely enough, it is nature which allows this utterly artificial scene to grow into an American verity. The harsh sunlight in the barren landscape establishes the fundamental tone out of which the women emerge in excessive hysteria from beneath their colored wigs. It is inherently absurd to celebrate the feminine aspect in the middle of a mercilessly inhospitable environment. The image of the two women is a monument of resistance, the meaningful assertion of a lifestyle which stands in contradiction to each and every convention. The pictorial structure and the captured movement along the edge of the format are a means of blending the glaring luminosity with the plot in a manner which perhaps functions successfully only in the “simple” instant technique of the Polaroid. Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives are striking in their formal elegance. She utilizes the chemical faults of the Polaroids, their tendency towards overexposure and double-images as a sovereignly controlled means of artistic design. The defects become, as it were, metaphorical levels which plumb depths lying far beneath the surface. The overly bright colors and schlieren seek out the uncanny; they provide a counterweight to a narration that is deliberately kept superficial. They tell of an invisible strand. They illuminate, in the truest sense of the word, underground processes. Although we are familiar with a series featuring American flags which could not indicate the site of its narrations any more clearly, nevertheless there remains a fundamental doubt as to whether the initially described association with America is identical with that which we deem to be America in a geographical sense.
Although I have in the meantime been in America several times, in both South and North America, deep down I remain uncertain as to whether the New World actually exists. Columbus’ error of continuing to believe, even when having arrived on land, that he was encountering the India which was the actual goal of his journey has burrowed down deep into the European unconscious as a cultural convention. Peter Bichsel’s amusing story “Amerika gibt es nicht” (There is no America) still remains today an undeniable truth: America’s northern half is a film, not a continent. Everything which signifies the U.S.A. – from the Indians, whose most noble savages were invented in Europe, all the way to September 11th and the subsequent war in Iraq, the aliens and the revival of the dinosaurs, the terminators as governors and presidents as actors and vice versa, the electric chairs, the godfather Marlon...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Radiants, Le Fauteuil de l
oubli
Head, Pharrell. LIVE FOREVER Mixed media
By Cristian Hunter
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo en la casa azul, Coyoacán, Mexico. Platinum edition. B&W Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Other Art Style USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
The Clash
By Janet Macoska
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Bassist Paul Simonon and lead singer Joe Strummer of British punk rock band The Clash backstage at the Agora Theatre in Cl...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Stranger than Paradise I - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stranger than Paradise I (Last Picture Show) - 2005
128 x 125 cm,
Edition 4/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jeff Bridges, 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 American actor, singe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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