Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Stefanie Schneider
Planes II (Stranger than Paradise)

2008

$500
£380.80
€438.93
CA$699.50
A$786.19
CHF 409.43
MX$9,561.99
NOK 5,239.11
SEK 4,968.22
DKK 3,275.90
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Planes II - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4653. Not mounted. Her photographs are not simply taken; they are summoned — conjured from sun-bleached deserts, expired film, and fleeting performances. There is intention, yes — staging, casting, choreography — but also surrender. The film might falter, the colors might bleed, the faces might blur. And in this surrender, something else emerges: a trembling truth that no perfection could ever reach. Each image is a meeting that will never happen again. What we witness in her work is a series of moments on the edge of vanishing — unrepeatable, tender, volatile. She invites entropy as a collaborator, allowing time itself to smudge the surface. The result is not nostalgia, not irony, but the ache of presence slipping away. Her world is one where nothing holds — and everything matters because of it. And here begins the strange tale — not one of grand gestures or neat conclusions, but of trembling moments caught between heartbeats. Like a whispered confession in a darkened room, these images comfort but also unsettle. The photographs are liminal spaces where the familiar twists into something uncanny: faces half-seen, shadows that refuse to settle, colors bleeding like old wounds. They echo the quiet desperation of a village that time forgot, where the soul’s longings are tangled with loneliness so thick it clings like dust. Schneider’s world is one where love is a ghost that lingers long after the living have gone. It is a love that stumbles, falters, and bleeds — awkward and aching, human in all its flawed beauty. Her work does not lie in wait for you to understand; it thrusts itself into your chest and demands you feel. The ache of absence, the stubborn pulse of memory, the cold fire of longing — all tangled in a stubborn refusal to be forgotten. This is not the soft fading of things past. It is the stubborn, restless flicker of something alive beneath the ash. Her images hold us there — in the unbearable weight of being both seen and unseen, held and abandoned, lost and found. And in that unbearable stillness, we catch a glimpse of ourselves — fragile, flawed, and fiercely, desperately human. 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. COLLECTIONS DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany / Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland / Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany / 
Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany / Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany / ARTISTS for TICHY - TICHY for ARTISTS, TICHY Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany / Polaroid Collection, USA / Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada / Kunstsammlung Kanton Zug, Switzerland / Bombay Beach Biennale, California / The Brooklyn Museum, NY / LACMA , Los Angeles / Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection, Texas, USA

More From This Seller

View All
Plane shift (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Plane shift - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4641. Not mounted. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Plane (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Plane - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4640. Not mounted. Stef...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Plane tear (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Plane tear - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4651. Not mounted. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Downwind Leg (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Downwind Leg (Stranger than Paradise) - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inven...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Airspace (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Airspace (Stranger than Paradise) - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Planes VIII
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planes VIII - 2008 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4641. Not mounted. A German view of the American West The works of Stefanie Schneider evoke Ed Ruscha's obsession with the American experience, the richness of Georgia O'Keefe's deserts, and the loneliness of Edward Hopper's haunting paintings. I chose Polaroid film because it portrays color like candy making...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

You May Also Like

Escape, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Yardley, PA
I saw a passenger jet leaving condensation trails in the sky overhead. It seemed so high and far, I imagined it was actually leaving the atmosphere and escaping planet Earth. I took ...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink

#21, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pigment

#205, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pigment

Untitled (C-1007)
By Marco Breuer
Located in New York, NY
Breuer has consistently challenged the conventions of photography by rejecting the use of camera, film and negative in favor of interacting directly with material. Eschewing conventi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Land & Sea VII (A)
By Colleen Fitzgerald
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition of 5 Colleen Fitzgerald's series, "Stamina," provides new approaches to conventional subjects by utilizing the materials and tools of photography in non-traditional ways. A unique physical process combines aspects of sculpture and photography, subverting the idealized two-dimensional photograph and providing a new entry point to the enduring photographic subjects of natural landscapes, seascapes, and more. To create the photographs, unexposed large sheets of positive film are cut and bent into three dimensional shapes before being exposed inside a camera outfitted with a custom film holder that accepts the film as a three-dimensional object instead of as a standard, flat sheet. The results on the shaped film can...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Pigment

#165, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pigment