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Figurative Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Brian Finke
A Man and a Woman - abstract in bathroom (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Man and a Woman - abstract in bathroom (Sidewinder), triptych - 2005 Edition of 10, installed 20x70cm including gaps, 20x20cm each. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist In...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VIII (Beachshoot) - 2005 30,7x30cm, sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 4/5 Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1467. Not...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

The Mystic - Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA)- Polaroid, Figurative, Woman
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Mystic - Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA), - 2009 Edition 3/5 , 37x47cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Artist i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Ryan Gosling - Stay
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 2/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 2447.02 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13

 Photography Art Cinema. Revisited Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated. Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.

 Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.

 
Stay Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
 The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid

Boccia VII (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VII (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Camil...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie Schneider Minis - The Dancer (Stay)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'The Dancer" (Stay), 2006 signed and signature brand on verso Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid from the movie 'Stay' by Marc Forster,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Plexiglass, Lambda, Polaroid

Max in Pool - Contemporary, Landscape, Figurative, expired, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max in Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 3/10, 48x46cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Caring (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Caring (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) Edition 1/10, 20x20cm, 2019. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. The 'Chicks and Ch...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Three Girls V (Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls V (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Ar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

A sunny Morning II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence_ - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A sunny Moring II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) 2013, 20x24cm, Edition 9/10,digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

Crow Burial II (Sidewinder)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crow Burial II (Sidewinder) 2005 20 x 20 cm, Edition 4/10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 3505.04, not mounted Some artists document the world as it is;...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Red Shoes - Stage of Consciousness - starring Radha Mitchell - Artist Proof 2/2
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Red Shoes' (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007, 20x24cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inve...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

Crow Burial - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analogue, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crow Burial III (Sidewinder) 20 x 20 cm, 2005, Edition 4/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Artist Inventory 3507.04, not mounted “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bates Motel (The Last picture Show) - 6 pieces - analog, Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bates Motel (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x20cm each, installed 43x66cm. 6 Archival C-Prints, based on the 6 original Polaroids. Certific...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007 Edition 2/5, each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm. 4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids. Ce...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Bourbon (Suburbia) featuring Louis Ferreira, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bourbon (Suburbia) - 2004 Edition of 2/5, 60x80cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Artist Inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

Waking-up - Women, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Waking up' (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

Boccia VI (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VI (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Cami...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Good Times (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Good Times (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2014 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

When we were friends (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, unmounted. The project "Suburbia" was sho...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Bates Motel VI (The Last Picture Show) - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bates Motel VI (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish, based on the origina...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Bates Motel III (The Last Picture Show) - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bates Motel III (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish, based on the origin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Revelation (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Revelation (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
 Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
 Signature label and Certificate.
 Artist Inv...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

Stefanie Schneider Minis - Untitled No 2 - Beachshoot - featuring Radha Mitchel
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Untitled #2' (Beachshoot) featuring Radha Mitchell, 2005 signed and signature brand on verso Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid Polar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Sunscreen II (Beachshoot) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunscreen II (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1394. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

A sunny Morning - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Sunny Morning (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature la...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

Renée's Dream - Jules and Jim X - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Jules and Jim X' (Renée's Dream) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2007 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Hocus-Pocus (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hocus-Pocus (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. A...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

Hysteria (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hysteria (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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

Hysteria (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hysteria (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1380. Not...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie Schneider Minis - The Girl (The Girl behind the White Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Minis - The Girl (The Girl behind the White Fence) - 2013 signed and signature brand on verso Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid Polaroid siz...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

White Picket Fence (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Picket Fence (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature labe...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Out Of Order (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Out Of Order (The Last Picture Show) - 2000, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Ar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

From Now On (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
From Now On (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Art...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Hereafter (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hereafter (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Bathtime II (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bathtime II (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...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Woman in Malibu (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, analog, 21st Century, Woman
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Woman in Malibu (Stranger than Paradise), triptych - 1999, 5/10, 58x56cm each, installed with gaps 58x180cm. Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist and based on the 3 origin...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist inventory Number ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

The Cave 01 - Planet of the Apes 10 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Cave I - Planet of the Apes 10 - 1999 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist In...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Something Today (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Something Today (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signatur...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Radio Hour (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radio Hour (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature lab...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

On Air (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On Air (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Sleepwalking (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sleepwalking (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signatu...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

A Rainy Day (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Rainy Day (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Art...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

A Mirage (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Mirage (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Fall (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fall (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inv...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Cherry Tree Blossoms (Till Death Do Us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cherry Tree Blossoms (Till Death Do Us Part), 80x78cm, Edition 1/5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Due Date II (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Due Date II (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1666. Not mounted. The project "Suburbia" was shot on the set of Marc Forster's first feature film 'Everything put Together' with Radha Mitchell, Michelle Hicks, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Matt Malloy and others. Suburbs collectively, or the people who live in them Suburb { a district, especially a residential one, on the edge of a city or large town } synonyms [Outer edge , Fringes, Periphery, Limits, Outer reaches, Environs ] Sunday in suburbia, a summer's day heavy with heat, hardly a soul to be seen. As a result, the motifs of Stefanie Schneider's “Suburbia” cycle – put together in California, in the very west of the USA – are virtually inconspicuous.Schneider's camera encircles an idyllic American setting, capturing a garden practically empty of people. Surrounded by a white picket fence, flowers and trees bloom profusely in the blazing sunlight. The day is empty and quiet like only a Sunday can be. The grass is perfectly cut, the garden well tended, the inhabitants oblivious to everything and lethargic. An instant is seized, revealing the tragedy of an average, unsuccessful, middle class life. The scene is familiar from countless movies and American literature; the perfect façade of an American ideal, which seems to conceal the horror of daily life. In David Lynch's „Blue Velvet“ the film begins with the camera rolling over a similar setting: the view over the fence, the painstakingly neatly cut lawn, ending with a close-up: a cut-off ear covered with feasting ants. Stefanie Schneider overdoes it, she exaggerates: this is confirmed by the irritating colourfulness as well as the vehemence of the motifs. Emptiness stands in stark contrast to the beauty of the blooming roses or the lush growth of the trees. The fenced, idyllic summer scene appears vacant; unused chairs surround a table, the grill untouched and clean, no object out of place. It is only the inhabitants who appear curiously lost. Schneider shows them in the middle of their saturated lives, in well-tended averageness, which can only be endured with a Martini on ice, on hand before lunch. In her opinion the scenes are banal, yet one becomes witness to great intimacy. Schneider's „Suburbia“ cycle lives from the interplay of the motifs, and tells a story with the same flavour as American author Raymond Carver...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Due Date (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Due Date (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1662. Not mounted. The project "Suburbia" was shot on the set of Marc Forster's first feature film 'Everything put Together' with Radha Mitchell, Michelle Hicks, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Matt Malloy and others. Suburbs collectively, or the people who live in them Suburb { a district, especially a residential one, on the edge of a city or large town } synonyms [Outer edge , Fringes, Periphery, Limits, Outer reaches, Environs ] Sunday in suburbia, a summer's day heavy with heat, hardly a soul to be seen. As a result, the motifs of Stefanie Schneider's “Suburbia” cycle – put together in California, in the very west of the USA – are virtually inconspicuous.Schneider's camera encircles an idyllic American setting, capturing a garden practically empty of people. Surrounded by a white picket fence, flowers and trees bloom profusely in the blazing sunlight. The day is empty and quiet like only a Sunday can be. The grass is perfectly cut, the garden well tended, the inhabitants oblivious to everything and lethargic. An instant is seized, revealing the tragedy of an average, unsuccessful, middle class life. The scene is familiar from countless movies and American literature; the perfect façade of an American ideal, which seems to conceal the horror of daily life. In David Lynch's „Blue Velvet“ the film begins with the camera rolling over a similar setting: the view over the fence, the painstakingly neatly cut lawn, ending with a close-up: a cut-off ear covered with feasting ants. Stefanie Schneider overdoes it, she exaggerates: this is confirmed by the irritating colourfulness as well as the vehemence of the motifs. Emptiness stands in stark contrast to the beauty of the blooming roses or the lush growth of the trees. The fenced, idyllic summer scene appears vacant; unused chairs surround a table, the grill untouched and clean, no object out of place. It is only the inhabitants who appear curiously lost. Schneider shows them in the middle of their saturated lives, in well-tended averageness, which can only be endured with a Martini on ice, on hand before lunch. In her opinion the scenes are banal, yet one becomes witness to great intimacy. Schneider's „Suburbia“ cycle lives from the interplay of the motifs, and tells a story with the same flavour as American author Raymond Carver...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Baywatch (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Baywatch (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 59x43.8cm, Edition of 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Ce...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Skywhale (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

On the Rocks - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Rocks II (Long Way Home), 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature la...
Category

1990s Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Everything changes (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything changes (Suburbia) - 2004 28x37cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, Artist Inventory # 1709...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 128x127cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. based on the Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 9283.02. Mounted o...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Metal

Happiness (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Happiness (Suburbia) - 2004 28x37cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, Not mounted. Artist Inventory # 1706. The works of S...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Memories of Green I, triptych, analog, hand printed, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Green I, triptych, - 2003 Edition of 5, each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 58x178cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Feather's Touch (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Feather's Touch (Chicks and Chicks) Edition of 10, 50x50cm. Lambda Print based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory 21313B. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. The works ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Find Figurative Photography for Your Home or Office

Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.

Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.

Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.

Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.

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