Art by Medium: Polaroid

Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 2007 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, Not mounted. Artist Inventory No. 11165 Stefanie...

Mitigating circumstances (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. A...

What once was (Bombay Beach) - 2023 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2023...

Lilies - 2022 50x50cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not moun...

Cleaning Up - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 76x101cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Pola...

Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005 Edition of 5, 156x125cm. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3094. Not mounted. "...

If you love me then why can’t it work? (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Sign...

Tim 1998 Signed, dated, and inscribed “AP” in pencil, recto Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper 22 x 15 inches, sheet 9 x 6.75 inches, image This work is offered by ClampArt in ...

'Bombay Nights' part of the series 'A girl called N.' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with c...

Daybreaker (Bombay Beach) - 2024 24x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL202...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatur...

Once in a Blue Moon (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by ...

Noise - 2022 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2022-2008. Not mo...

Sunscreen II (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1394. ...

Victorian Falcon (Chicks and Chicks - 29 Palms, CA - last Chapter) 20x24 cm, Edition of 10 Archival C-print, based on the Polaroid Artist inventory 19509.13, Not mounted. Stefan...

Lerici '25 is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Ligurian coastline of Italy. The image is part of a limited edition of 20, hand-signed ...

What I think she sees - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory -...

Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

In front of Trailer (Sidewinder) - 2005 Diptych 25x24cm each, installed 25x55cm, Edition 2/5. 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal archive Paper, based ...

Ok Fine (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...

Twist and Turn - 2020, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-896. Not mounted....

Bath Time Story - 2017, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL201...

American Pie (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007, from the 29 Palms, CA project - 78x76cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature lab...

Fool's gold - 2021 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1086. Not ...

How can you say that (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 labe...

Reality (The Princess and her Lover) - 2009 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

"Pola Girls 12" Nude Polaroid Photography - Unique piece by Larsen Sotelo 4.2" x 3.5" inch - including white Polaroid frame 3.1" x 3,1" inch - image area ...

Waves - 2021 40x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1087. Not mounted...

OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise), - 1999, 20x20 cm, Edition 5/10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 318_2.18, 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 with Adam Berg, Doron Gazit, Kellan Barnebey, Chris Sanchez, Aili Schmelzt 2017 BLICKFELD Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
 Rosegallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (G) Magie des Moments, Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G) 2016 
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin 

(S) 2015
 Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky The Ballery in Heat, The Ballery, Berlin (G) 
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) 

 2014

 Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G) 
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
 2013 
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region,  Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog) 
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
 Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen 
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth...

'Foreverly' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 11...

Erasure - 2020 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-939. Not mounted. Ki...

Sunscreen (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1389. N...

Kelly II (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1450. Not...

Fata Margana - 2017 Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof Archival C-print, based on the Polaroid not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-138 Kirs...

The Juncture (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 18572. Not mounted. Beachshoot These photographic fantasies are determined by carefully chosen constraints and the use of symbolic attributes. Telegraph poles, airplanes, vast wastelands, a train bridge or a 50s American car tell in the same manner different stories, as do lurid wigs, kids toys, a headscarf or an old super 8...

Hungry heart - 2021 - 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1037. Not ...

Lucid Dreams - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-942. Not moun...

Athena and Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate a...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatu...

'Girls' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 9361.08 Not mount...

Quagmire - 2024 - 50x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL2024-004. Not mou...

In the witch's cave (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - 2020 60x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on the orig...

Wonder Backyard II - 2018 50 x 66 cm, Edition 2 of 5. Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on a Hand painted Fuji Instant Film original (not mounted). S...

Oasis (Sidewinder), 2005 Edition 1/5, 16 pieces each 48x47cm, installed with gaps 220x220cm analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. Mou...

This is a unique work. Work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (pictured). The work is stamped on the verso by the Es...

Valhalla - 2021 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021...

Bishop, CA (Strange Love) diptych - 2005 2 Archival C-Prints, based on two Polaroids. 40x105 installed, 40x50cm each. Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 9930. ...

Dear, 2018, 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-400. Not mo...

'Headspace', 2020 50x38cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, Based on an original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-876....

The Farmer's Wife (American Depression) - 2004 50 x 49 cm Edition of 10 plus two artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist In...

Malina (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Invento...

In it together (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 9371. Not mount...

Embrace - 2020 78x76cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-968. Not mou...

X-Rayed (Back in the 80ies) - 1998 48x46cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory N...

The Decision - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist Inventory #762. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider's photographs evoke scintillating moments suspended between daydreams and waking reality. Each scene, captured in the southwestern United States, radiates a surreal enchantment. The artist's role appears minimal yet pivotal, providing the decisive impulse that sets the imagery into motion. The figures in her photographs remain as elusive as the motivations behind their actions, and the narratives woven through her sequences are tantalizingly open to interpretation. Atmospheric disturbances in Schneider's work emerge as the result of a deliberate narrative arrangement, compelling viewers to navigate between visual mementos and the gaps in memory they conjure. Yet, her artistry is no less purposeful in its engagement with medium. Despite the inherent unpredictability of expired Polaroid film, Schneider wields it with calculated intent. The photo-chemical self-developing process, altered by age and decay, transforms the initial exposure into something alien yet mesmerizing. This dysfunction is a cornerstone of MIND SCREEN, a multi-part work that explores the fragility of reality, authenticity, and comprehension. Schneider juxtaposes this brittleness with a magical realism steeped in chimeras, crafting dreamlike sequences that resist definitive narratives. She entrusts viewers with the responsibility of piecing together presumed storylines, refusing to offer a manual for interpretation. Instead, her work draws us into a realm where the unreal reigns—shimmering scenes that evoke the mirage of a road movie, a moment of violence, or a tragic self-sacrifice. Film genres are invoked and subverted in a single breath: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders is reimagined through a rose-tinted lens, Thelma...

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...

Lifeguard (Malibu) - 2004 39x37cm, Edition 2/5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number ...

Masterplan - 2021 - 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021...