Polaroid Color Photography

#Girl Manoeuvres - 01 from the series Dunderwear - 2007 26x20cm edition of 7 . Archival C-print based on the Polaroid , on beautiful on Fine art bright white by Hahnemuhle framed in a shadow Frame (white oiled wood) Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Carmen De Vos - Artist Statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography...

Letham House (Stay) - 2006 Edition of 10, 6 pieces 82x80cm each, installed 174x260cm. 6 archival C-Prints, based on the 6 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...

Stefanie Schneider’s Minis Blue Bridge (Stranger than Paradise), 1999 Signed with signature brand on verso. Blue Bridge (Stranger than Paradise), 1999, is a Lambda digital color ph...

Jimi Hendrix Palm Trees (Californication) - 2016 106x160cm, Edition 3/10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...

Autumn Light - 2017, 40 x 30 cm, Edition 4 of 10. Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on a Hand painted Fuji Instant Film original (not mounted). Signe...

MISS ERIS #29 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] Exhibited in solo shows in 2018 in Ghent and Antwerp. Published in her book 'The Eyes of th...

Untitled - 2014, 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10. Digital C-Print based a Polaroid Collage. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back with Certi...

'Hunting' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 Edition of 5, 58x56cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on an expired Polaroid. Signatur...

She need not move (Sidewinder) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #3298 Not mounted. St...

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 ...

Seagull (Zuma Beach) - 1999 38x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 502. Not moun...

Radha Mitchell on the Set of 'The Crazies'' - 2009 24x30cm Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory 11678. not moun...

Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004 60x60cm, Edition of 10, Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1223. Not mounted. Stefanie Schn...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 21396. ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...

Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 40x40cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 3612. Not mount...

The Point of no Return (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 48x58cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19627.02. ...

Lila and Sam (Stay) with Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory...

Come on Home - 2017, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-280....

Red Note Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist This still-life picture of a Music Note consists of an olive, mint leaf and a toothpick. It was shot on Polaroid Polachrome ...

Fountain Head (Stay) - 2006 featuring Ryan Gosling 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5250 No...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artis...

In it together (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 9385. Not m...

'The Knife' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 Edition of 5, 58x56cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Lab...

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. 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...

Leaving III (Sidewinder) - 2005 60x110cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3463. Not mounted. Stefanie ...

Hallway III (Suburbia) - 2004 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 430.01. Subur...

I don't like it (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. A...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 128x125cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certifi...

Beautiful and Surprising (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroi...

Gaelle With Broken Arm - 2021 60 x 50 cm, Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Hahnemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on the original reclaimed Fuji Instant ...

'(This is not a) Lovesong' part of the series 'A girl called N.' - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signed ...

Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory N...

Ladybird (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 Edition of 10, 20x20cm, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Artist inventory 22256. Signature label and Certificate. ...

MISS ERIS #11 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] Exhibited in solo shows in 2018 in Ghent and Antwerp. Published in her book 'The Eyes of the Fox', 2018. Art print ...

Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Lambda Print based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory 21327B. Signature labe...

Girl Manoeuvres - Story Board, 2007/2018, Edition 1/7, 105 x 85 cm (including the white frame), Digital color print based on 9 original Polaroids on bea...

Fish (Stay) - 2006, 20x24cm, Edition 4/5. Archival C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and cer...

'A Room with a View' (Strange Love) - 2010 20x20cm, Edition of 5, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, signature label and certificate, arti...

Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise), 2005 30x38cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No. 842. No...

The Ranch (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 40x40cm, Edition of of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 1935...

'Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004 60x60cm, Edition 3/10. Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1206.03. Not mounted. In the cano...

Innocence (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2262. Not m...

Rendering Memories II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13388. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer. -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal. (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...

Strange Days (Wastelands) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Ar...

Black Bird (Chicks and Chicks and Sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...

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 ...

The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 2005 Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs. 48x46cm each, installed 155x151cm. 9 archival C-Prints, based on the 9 Polaroids. Certificate and Sig...

Boccia VII (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Camil...

'Oblivion' part of the series 'The crazy Adventures of David C.' - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and...

The Letter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...

A Beautiful Day (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...

Posing I (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 5, 20x20cm, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No 1174.01 Not mounted. Gaze upon S...

House of Tomorrow (Californication) - 2021 50x49cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 Edition of 10, 38x37cm. Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 1407. Signature label and ...

Mindscreen 5 (Night on Earth) - 1999 128x126cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on verso with Certificate. Artist Inventor...

Purple Valley (Wastelands) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 6...

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 a Polaroid. Signature ...

I am leaving! (Till Death do us Part) - 2007 - 20x24cm each, installed 20x50cm, Edition of 10, 2 digital C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label, artist...