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Stefanie SchneiderMax Blue (The Last Picture Show), triptych2005
2005
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Max Blue, Triptych (The Last Picture Show), 2005
Each 38x36 cm, 38x122 cm installed
Edition 1/5
3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish
Based on three Polaroids
Certificate and signature label
Artist inventory number: 683.01
Unmounted
Stefanie Schneider: A German View of the American West
Stefanie Schneider's work draws from the greats of American visual storytelling—Ed Ruscha’s exploration of the American landscape, the vast deserts painted by Georgia O'Keeffe, and the stark solitude found in Edward Hopper’s iconic works. Yet, Schneider's unique lens and perspective offer a German-born artist's interpretation of the American West, making her one of the most compelling voices in the 21st-century narrative of the American experience.
Born in Germany in 1968, Schneider splits her time between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her creative process begins in the American West—on the sprawling plains and arid deserts of Southern California—where she captures her subjects through the ephemeral lens of expired Polaroid film. Once back in Berlin, she personally develops and enlarges her works, continuing the intimate connection between her subjects and the process of creation.
The vivid, almost surreal colors of Schneider’s expired Polaroids immediately captivate the viewer. Her use of this now-obsolete medium, at a time when Polaroid was fading into history, stands as a testament to her reverence for its iconic status in American photography. This act of preservation against decay mirrors the larger themes that permeate her work—preservation, deterioration, and the impermanence of life itself.
In a 2014 interview with Artnet, Schneider reflected on how her own experiences with love and loss inform her art. "Love, lost and unrequited, leaves its mark in our lives as a senseless pain that has no place in the present," she said. It is this emotional residue—this absence—that is deeply felt in her photographs.
Many of Schneider’s works depict solitary figures in apocalyptic settings: desolate deserts, abandoned motels, empty beaches, and run-down trailer parks. Often, her subjects seem disconnected from the landscape and from one another. Schneider explains, "It is the tangible experience of 'absence' that has inspired my work." These images evoke not only physical emptiness but emotional isolation, underscoring the notion that absence itself is as potent as presence.
Long before the advent of Instagram filters like Valencia, Mayfair, and Amaro, Schneider was crafting an otherworldly quality in her images—capturing a dreamlike, melancholic beauty that feels both timeless and profoundly alien. The themes of memory, loss, and fleeting beauty that run through her work continue to resonate with viewers, creating a dialogue between past and present, presence and absence.
In Max Blue, Schneider captures this tension beautifully, allowing the viewer to enter a world where memory, love, and loss become indistinguishable. The colors, the desolate landscapes, and the solitary figures all speak to the impossibility of recapturing the past, yet the longing to do so remains. Through her photographs, Schneider immortalizes what has been left behind, transforming the fleeting into the eternal.
(Barnebys UK, May 3, 2017
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 14.97 in (38 cm)Width: 48.04 in (122 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652315949512
Stefanie Schneider
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., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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