Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2

Stefanie Schneider
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - Contemporary, Landscape, Polaroid

2013

$410
£311.27
€356.02
CA$572.83
A$637.11
CHF 332.68
MX$7,752.97
NOK 4,248.83
SEK 3,984.65
DKK 2,657.12
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory No. 17580. Not mounted. Alchemist of Light, Architect of Dreams Some artists document the world as it is; Stefanie Schneider reveals the world as it feels. Her work is not merely a collection of images but a sensory landscape, a cinematic excavation of longing, memory, and the quiet beauty of imperfection. In an era obsessed with digital precision, she has built an empire on the unpredictable grace of expired Polaroid film—where chemistry and fate conspire to blur the edges between past and present, dream and reality. Schneider’s artistry is a rebellion wrapped in tenderness. Born at the very moment Polaroid was gasping its last breath, she embraced its fragility, turning chemical distortions into portals of nostalgia and poetic dissonance. Yet, her art is not just about the medium—it is a philosophy. Each faded hue and melting silhouette speaks to the ephemeral nature of existence, echoing the lost highways of Wim Wenders, the quiet devastation of a faded love letter, the cinematic stillness before a storm. From the sun-drenched desolation of the California desert to the spectral glow of half-remembered motels, her work captures a world teetering between illusion and truth. A place where time lingers, where stories are suspended in soft-focus light, refusing to resolve into simple conclusions. The figures in her images—lovers, wanderers, ghosts of a golden-hour past—exist on the margins, caught in an unspoken dialogue with the viewer. We do not just see them; we recognize them. Schneider has not merely preserved a dying medium—she has elevated it to something mythic, something wholly her own. Her work is at once contemporary and timeless, evoking the ghosts of Warhol’s silkscreens, the quiet grandeur of Edward Hopper, the melancholic resonance of a half-forgotten song playing on an old jukebox. In a world consumed by the relentless march of progress, she reminds us that beauty often lives in the flaws, in the spaces between moments, in the whispers of the past. Some artists capture history. Stefanie Schneider captures memory itself—before it fades, before it slips through our fingers like dust illuminated by desert light. And in doing so, she has changed not just how we see photography, but how we see ourselves. Stefanie Schneider earned her MFA in Communication Design from the renowned Folkwang Schule in Essen, Germany, an institution known for its interdisciplinary approach to art and design. Her work has been widely exhibited in prestigious museums and art institutions across Europe and beyond, underscoring her significant impact on contemporary visual culture. Notable exhibitions include the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, the Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin, and the Institut für Neue Medien in Frankfurt. Her cinematic and dreamlike imagery has also been featured at the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Passau. Internationally, Schneider’s work has been recognized at Les Rencontres d'Arles—one of the most esteemed photography festivals in the world— and the Foto-Triennale in Esslingen. Her artistic vision extends beyond traditional gallery spaces, as seen in her participation in the Bombay Beach Biennale in 2018, an avant-garde art festival redefining creative expression in the California desert.

More From This Seller

View All
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x20c...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Farewell (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, 21st Century, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 105x100cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper, matte surface, based on a P...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Love Birds (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love Birds (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x20.9cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Last Memory (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Memory (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, 21st Century, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 from the 29 Palms, CA Project 4 pieces 70x90cm installed, 30x40cm each. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs,. 4 archival C-Prin...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

You May Also Like

Daydreams
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series In Between Days Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category

2010s Romantic Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Vintage 20X24 Format Polaroid Signed Surrealist Photograph Eve Sonneman Photo
By Eve Sonneman
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a show at Sidney Janis Gallery and is from the estate of Joan Sonnabend. Eve Sonneman (born in Chicago on 1946) is an American photographer and artist. She did a series ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Polaroid

American Contemporary Photo by Michael Yamaoka - Amazing Grace
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital Photograph HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks     Edition 2 of 9 Shipped in a tube 
Category

2010s Land Color Photography

Materials

Digital, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink

You Move Me In A Whole Different World, Surreal Photograph by Maggie Taylor
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Maggie Taylor, American (1961 - ) Title: Untitled (You Move Me In A Whole Different World) Year: 1987 Medium: Color Photograph Edition: 15 Size: 12.5 x 16.5 in. (31.75 x 41.9...
Category

1980s Post-Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color

Charlotte Solomon - Original Limited Edition Photograph by Angelo Cricchi
By Angelo Cricchi
Located in Roma, IT
Charlotte Salomon is an original digital photograph realized by Angelo Cricchi in 2009. Hand-signed, dated, numbered by the artist on the back of t...
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Dream of Fields
By Amanda Pratt
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Amanda Pratt is known and admired for the energetic, inspiring brand of whimsy she brings to photography. Countless clients have benefitted from her technical preci...
Category

2010s Figurative Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper