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Stefanie SchneiderWhite Trash Beautiful I - 29 Palms, CA featuring Radha Mitchell1999
1999
About the Item
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) featuring Radha Mitchell - 1999
128x125cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Artist Inventory Number 794.03.
Signed on back.
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA), 1999 – In the harsh, unforgiving light of the Californian desert, a woman stands poised on the steps of her mobile home, caught between the ruin and the dream. She is beautiful, unmistakably so, but it’s the kind of beauty that doesn’t seek to be understood, that doesn’t apologize for its presence. Her red wig gleams with the brightness of a new beginning, freshly brushed, the hair still holding the bristles of the brush like a secret she’s just shared with the wind.
She is an enigma. Her gaze, direct, unwavering, seems to peer not just at the camera, but into the future—perhaps an uncertain future, perhaps one that holds nothing but the empty space of a distant dream, but a future nonetheless. A hand rests on the railing, a touch of strength and vulnerability intertwined. It is as if she holds on to this moment, balancing between the fragility of the present and the unknown stretch of time ahead.
Her turquoise mini skirt and flowery, sleeveless blouse speak of a place untouched by trends, by the fleeting world of fashion that exists in cities beyond the horizon. Here, on the steps of her mobile home, she is more than a mere echo of something lost—she is a woman who has always been her own, who lives with the strange beauty of a life too raw to be sanitized, too wild to be tamed.
The trailer park behind her is just as much a part of her identity as her clothes, her beauty, and her boldness. The mobile home, a symbol of both transience and endurance, rests in the background, weathered by the desert sun, much like her soul. The shadow of the trailer, the cracked pavement beneath her feet, the dust in the air—they are not burdens she carries, but rather, the silent companions of a life that refuses to fade quietly into obscurity.
This is not the kind of beauty that adorns billboards or graces magazine covers. No, this beauty is something far more elusive, something deeper that resides in the strength of living fully in the margins, in finding peace in the chaos of life's imperfections. She is not an image of escape but one of acceptance, a defiant presence that refuses to be diminished by circumstances.
The photograph doesn’t linger in the softness of romanticism, but in the truth of a life lived on the fringes, where beauty blooms not in the absence of hardship but in spite of it. It is a moment where we are asked to look beyond the surface and confront the complexity of a woman who is both fragile and indomitable, a woman who is alive in every imperfection that the world would rather forget.
In this image, Stefanie Schneider takes us into the heart of a world that doesn’t ask for your approval but demands your attention, your respect. It is the beauty of a woman who doesn’t need to apologize for her existence, for her beauty, for her place in the world. She is not just surviving; she is living. And that, in itself, is something worth remembering.
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
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 50.4 in (128 cm)Width: 49.22 in (125 cm)Depth: 0.12 in (3 mm)
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- Condition:this piece ships in a crate.
- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652315966572
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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