20th Century Art

'Sitting Bull' (Immaculate Springs), 1998, starring Udo Kier Edition of 5, 58x57cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Not mounted, signature Lab...

Dreaming of the Lighthouse (29 Palms, CA), 1999, 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 
 Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. 
Certificate and Signature labe...

Vivienne II (Desert Nudes) - 2016 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 18...

Wild Boy (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory ...

Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999, 50x50cm, Edition of 25, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #834. Not mounted. Berlin based artist Stefanie Schneider enlarges expired Polaroid stock into burned-out C-prints. The lossy images almost completely dissolve into lurid color abstractions. The shiny pink of a sex kitten's glittery body suit becomes an electrified, free-floating color field. The vivid, flame-orange hair of a 70's sexploitation film star vibrates against the dusty gray of the sky above an LA desert. Skin tones and facial details in the figures are completely lost. They are refugees from Faster Pussycat...

Max by the Fence (29 Palms, CA) Proof Before Printing / 2005 Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist from a Polaroid, signed on the front. 128 × 125 cm The white border is for ha...

29 Day Dreams (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, matte surface, based on a Polaroid, Not mou...

Silver Bra (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 287. S...

Power Plant Drive By (Vegas) - 2000 Edition 4/10, 44x59cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...

Poolside (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 3/5, 127x125cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper (matte surface), based on the Polaroid. Artist inv...

Kirsten smokes (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist invento...

California Blue Screen (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997, 43,8x59cm, sold out Edition of 5, this is the last Artist Proof 1/2. Arnalog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist based on...

Man walking in Distance (Zuma Beach) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition of 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back and Certificate. Artist Inve...

Blue Water Pistol (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm each, analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Arch...

Untitled 08 (Saigon) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory #19813. Not ...

Construction Site Drive By (Vegas) - 2000 Edition 4/10, 44x59cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 40x40cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

Girl Nude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x20cm, Archival C-Print, not mounted, based on a Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate, Artist inven...

Max and Radha sitting on Rock (Long Way Home) - 1999 featuring Radha Mitchell 57x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #257. Not mounted. 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...

OK Corral (Stranger than Paradise), triptych, each 20 x 20 cm, together with gaps 20x65cm, 1999, Edition 8/10, digital C-Prints based on 3 Polaroids, Artis...

The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 1999 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inve...

'10525 (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 5 pieces, each 20x20cm, installed 20x112cm including gaps. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signatu...

Untitled (Venice Beach) - 1998 Edition 2/5, 48x56cm Analog C-Print, enlarged and hand-printed by the artist mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, Based on a Polaroid Artist...

Untitled (Immaculate Springs) - 1998 58x57cm Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on her expired original Polaroid. Signature Label ...

Posing I (Wastelands) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition 1/5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate artist inventory number: 11...

Day Worker (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 3/10. 65x60cm including 'Polaroid' frame. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum...

'Eavesdropping' (29 Palms, CA), Edition 3/10, 20x20cm, 1999, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory No. 18257.03. Not mounted. ...

Madonna (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Nu...

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...

On the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 1999 44x75cm including the white frame, image areas: 30x29cm each. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 ori...

Sleepy Head (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 Numbe...

Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inve...

OK Corral (Stranger than Paradise), triptych - 1999 Edition of 10, each 58 x 56 cm, together with gaps 58x185cm, 3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Arch...

'Kirsten Red Lips' (California Blue Screen) Edition 1/3, 114x142 cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artists, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inv...

Spare Parts (29 Palms, CA) -1999 48x46cm, Edition of 5/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory 320. Signature label and Certificate. ...

Seagulls (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 107. Not mou...

Max, smoking in Car (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte su...

Burning Field V (The Last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventor...

Burning Field (The Last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory ...

Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - 2021 50x50cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

Bekins (Stranger than Paradise) 1999, 60x70cm, Edition 1/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminu...

Blue Fingernails (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 - 50x50cm, Edition of 10. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory number: 21083. Not mo...

Once in a Blue Moon (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, dition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory Number 17849. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer . -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - 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 girls 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 10 acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots 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 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 acclaim…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...

Seagull (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #203. Not mount...

White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 78x76cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

Garden Way (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #211. Not mo...

Gasoline II (Stranger than Paradise) 1999 - 3 pieces, each 50x50cm, installed 50x170cm including gaps. sold out Edition of 150, Artist Proof 4/5. Archival C-Prints, based on 3 Po...

Volvo 1800ES (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 201. Not...

Highway One (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 201. Not ...

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 # 106. Not moun...

Long Way Home (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999, 3 x 58x56cm, installed 58x180cm, sold out Edition of 10, last Artist Proof 3/3. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, base...

Max, smoking in Car (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist ...

Somerset (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 5...

Day Worker (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory...

Skylark open trunk (Stranger than Paradise), 1997 - Edition 1/10, 60x80cm, Analog C-Print, printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inv...

Dreamgirl II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist invento...