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Art Subject: Face
Graffiti Artist Keith Haring, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Graffiti and visual artist Keith Haring photographed with one of his paintings in April 1984. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photograph...
Category

1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Golden Brown - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Golden Brown' part of the series 'A girl called N.' - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on the back an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Ladies, Wildwood, New Jersey - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Ladies, photograph by Richard Heeps, from his Jersey Shore series. Taken in Wildwood, the historic Doo-Wop Town of New Jersey, this kitsch signage is perfect Pop Art and is typical o...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tenderness (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tenderness (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Foreverly - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Foreverly' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 11...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket, 1940, Lobbycard
Located in Cologne, DE
This vintage lobby card features a classic scene from Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the beloved 1940 animated film. The image shows Pinocchio, the wooden puppet boy, sitting on the floor, his wide eyes fixed in curiosity as he gazes at his tiny, talking companion, Jiminy Cricket. The two characters share a moment of interaction in the workshop where Pinocchio was crafted. The background shows wooden shavings scattered on the floor, a tool, and a jar, adding to the handmade, rustic atmosphere. Pinocchio's signature bright red shorts, blue bow tie, and yellow hat are clearly visible, emphasizing his playful and innocent appearance. Jiminy Cricket, perched on a piece of wood, adds charm and guidance to the scene with his small but prominent presence. The lobby card measures 35.5 cm by 26.4 cm, and it includes the iconic logo, "Walt Disney’s Pinocchio" in bold lettering, along with "Technicolor" to highlight the vibrant color of the animated film. This card, which would have been displayed in theaters to promote the film, captures the magic and heart of the movie, making it a timeless piece of Disney memorabilia.
Category

Late 20th Century Color Photography

Materials

Color

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #9503 Not mounted....
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

David Bowie portrait by Brian Aris, framed signed limited edition print
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition 12x16" print of David Bowie by Brian Aris, taken in Brian’s London studio in 1991. Brian Aris limited edition prints, signed and nu...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Giclée

Elton John wearing plaid at Linley bday party, London 1991 25x17 colour print
Located in Norwich, GB
Iconic and rare limited edition print direct from the negative, signed lower right hand margin and stamped with photographers own blind stamp. This is Number 1/25. Paper size 25 x 17...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

Carolina Herrera
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Carolina Herrera" is a Polaroid, Polacolor by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FA04.07026 and AWL064. The work is embosed in the...
Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Madonna (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Madonna (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Nu...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Martha Graham
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Martha Graham" is a Post-War Polaroid by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is unsigned, but has been given the ...
Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Travis Cantrell, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
Located in München, BY
Edition 25 Portrait of Travis Cantrell. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph. Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta. In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Grace Jones and Frank Zappa to name a few. A partial list of the films that he has generated graphics and publicity for include “The Hurt Locker”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “King Arthur”, “Tootsie”, “The Big Chill”, “Bull...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Just For a Time (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Just For a Time (The last Picture Show) - 2004 58x56cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the o...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Penny Lane and Nastasia at Sunset (Chicks and Chicks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane and Nastasia at Sunset (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Whisky and Water VI (Sidewinder) - Diptych - Vintage hand-prints
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky and Water VI (Sidewinder) - 2005, Edition 4/5. 45x36cm each, diptych. 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the 2 Polaroid...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory N...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Friendly Paris Policeman Paris In Color 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Friendly Paris Policeman from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius 20 x 16 inches / 51 x 31 cm paper size Printed 2022 Archival pigment print Framing and size opt...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

All Hail II. From the Grand Interiors series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist inspiration is deeply rooted in the notion of discovery through visual reflections and a strong passion for symmetry and linear structure. Her architectural works of Refle...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Set of 6 Portraits From The Third Gender of India Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The term "hijra" applies to a very diverse group of people in India who identify as third gender. They can range from a natural born hermaphrodite to a male cross dresser. Dating bac...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Daybreaker - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daybreaker (Bombay Beach) - 2024 48x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL202...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Bedtime Story II - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bedtime Story II, 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, Based on Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-484 Kirs...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Transport of Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Traces of Time (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traces of Time (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13370. 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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Steven, Route 10, Louisiana
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print Signed and numbered, verso 16 x 20 inches (Edition of 15) 24 x 30 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 37.5 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, l...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Randy and I I (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Randy and I (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1170. Signature label and Cer...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Ohh Baby ! - Hand Signed Limited Edition by BATIK
Located in London, GB
Ohh Baby ! - Hand Signed Limited Edition - Pop Art - Kate Moss Archival Pigment Print BATÍK is a London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist. Measures 60 x 40 inc...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Candy Factory Worker, 2006
Located in Atlanta, GA
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Small Town Love (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Small Town Love (Last Picture Show) - 2006 Edition 1/10, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Wendy Flaming Eyeball, Las Vegas - Contemporary Portrait Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Portrait photograph From Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' Series. It is part of a sequence of artworks 'Wendy Flaming Eyeball', 'Wendy Resting' & 'Oldsmobile and Sinful Barbie's' taken at ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Crystal Ball - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crystal Ball - 2020 - 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-1001. Not...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Patron Saint Petra (Odd Stories) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Patron Saint Petra' (Odd Stories) - Edition of 25, 2011 Archival Print, mounted on black mdf, matte coating, dimensions 15x11,3cm (the second image shows a sample piece mounted) han...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Wood Panel, Color, Digital, Polaroid

Deseo Insular X. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Golden Brown - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Golden Brown' part of the series 'A girl called N.' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with ce...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Athena and Henry (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Athena and Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate a...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Max by the fence (29 Palms, CA) - Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max by the fence (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x57cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist & based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Cer...
Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Vanilla
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 Edition of 5, 58x56cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature Label ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Blondie Close Up by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blondie Close Up By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition Close up of Debbie Harry of Blondie photographed in New York 1978 All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Pa...
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Somerset (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somerset (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number 5...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Siouxsie Sioux - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Siouxsie Sioux - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print Portrait of Siouxsie Sioux, New York, 1980 (photo Mick Rock). All prints are numbered by the ...
Category

1980s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Penny Lane and Dreamgirl (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane and Dreamgirl (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 50x60cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory 19139. Signature label and C...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

The Jam "In The City" album cover contact sheet by Martyn Goddard
Located in Austin, TX
Contact sheet of The Jam's photo shoot for the cover of their debut album 'In The City' Martyn Goddard recalls, "I had a phone call from Bill Smith, one of the art directors at Pol...
Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Shania Twain - artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
Shania Twain, Lake Placid, NY 1997 by photographer Timothy White Signed artist proof print 16x20" image on 17x22" paper
Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Photography

Materials

Giclée

Deliberation (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Deliberation (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Numb...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Walking Wounded - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Walking Wounded' 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-185 Kirs...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Drugs Don't Work II - Oversize signed limited edition - Pop Art - Twiggy
Located in London, GB
The Drugs Don't Work II - Oversize limited edition - Pop Art - Twiggy by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 41 ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Kelly (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kelly (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1378. Not mou...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Now What?
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print Stamped and numbered, verso 20 x 24 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) 50 x 60 inches (Edition of 3) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Waiting for Response (Strange Love)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting for Response (Strange Love) - 2005 50 x 40 cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on an i-sight video chat. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. A piece of S...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Video, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Summer of 68 (The Last Picture Show) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Summer of 68 (The Last Picture Show) - 2000 20x20m, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Wallflower (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wallflower (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate,...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Immaculate Conception, Villa De’este, 2015
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping, and a 14 day return policy. The artwork will ship from London. Immaculate Conception, Villa De'este (2015) 24 ...
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color

Oscar de la Renta
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Oscar de la Renta" is a Polaroid, Polacolor by pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FB05.01157 and AWL072. Andy Warhol — who famously said th...
Category

Mid-20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Dolores Guinness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012), was a German born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her mother was the famous Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness. Dolores was often seen in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country and Life magazine dressed in designer clothes from Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga during the 1950s and 1960s, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern, Henry Clarke, Mark Shaw (photographer), Richard Avedon and William Klein. She often appeared on the International Best Dressed List during these years. The Costa Smeralda (lit. 'Emerald Coast...
Category

1960s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

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