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Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Terry Evans
Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contempoary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (The Last Picture Show), 2005 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original SX-70 Polaroid. Inventory No. 781.02. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Stage Right (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stage Right (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Dominion (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dominion (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Booty (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Booty (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 7...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Suspicion (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Suspicion (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

MacGuffin (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
MacGuffin (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Backcasting (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Backcasting (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Transformation (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Transformation (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inve...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

X (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
X (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 7720 ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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

Blowin' In The Wind (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier, Radha Mitchel
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blowin' In The Wind (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show), triptych - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show), triptych - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm each, 58x181cm installed. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Metal

Love (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 120x180cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 19 original Polaroids. Certificate and signature label. Artist...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artis...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artis...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artis...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

The Farmer (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Golden (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
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1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Golden (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Golden (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 182.04. Not moun...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Desert Bloom (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Bloom (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Ecstasy (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ecstasy (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory #...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

The Field (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Field (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

The Field (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Field (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

The little Girl at the End of the Road (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The little Girl at the End of the Road (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate a...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Wonder Wheel (Strange Love)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Wonder Wheel' (Strange Love) - 2010 40x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 6...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Room No. 503, II - 21st Century, Polaroid, Interior Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Room No. 503, II (Strange Love) - 2010 48x47cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artis...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Shelbourne Hotel (Strange Love) - Nude, New York, Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shelbourne Hotel (Strange Love) - 2010 Edition 2/5 20x20cm each, 95x20cm installed. 4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 original Polaroids. Artist Invento...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Flying Boy (Stay) - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid, Photograph, Film
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flying Boy (Stay) - from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 58x56cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Pape...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Playtime (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Playtime (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Night and Day (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Night and Day (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inv...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Gratification (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gratification (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signa...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Scared (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Scared (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Never Let Go (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Never Let Go (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Damsel (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Damsel (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Wild (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 83...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Blown Away (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blown Away (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Follow the Heart (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Follow the Heart (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist In...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Burnout (Stage of Consciousness)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burnout (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition 1/10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 8455. Not mounted. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Conductor (Stage of Consciousness) - Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Conductor (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Joy (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Joy (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project - featuring Radha Mitchell 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Male nude from the 29 Palms, CA series, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition 7/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Mels (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mels (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Ether, (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ether, (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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

Apathy (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Apathy (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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

Soliciting (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Soliciting (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Flying (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flying (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Without You (Stage of Consciousness) - Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Without You (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Abreaction (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abreaction (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Playtime (Stage of Consciousness) - Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Playtime (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Anhedonia (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Anhedonia (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Shell (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shell (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature ...
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1990s Outsider Art Photography

Materials

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

Plane mist (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Plane mist - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4663. Not mounted. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Alexithymia (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alexithymia (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Self-Gratification (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Self-Gratification (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, 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 Photography

Materials

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

Always and Forever (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Always and Forever (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Predisposed (Stage of Consciousness) - Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Predisposed (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

Love (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 84...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

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

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