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Figurative Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: David Drebin
Childhood Memories (Stay) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Film,
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay) from the Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, 2006,
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Bates Motel' part 1 - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Bates Motel' part 1 (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
38x36cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish,
b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
Planet of the Apes XI - Polaroid, Color, Nude, Men, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planet of the Apes XI, 1999,
Edition 1/10, 40x40cm,
Signature label and Certificate.
not mounted,
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schul...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Suburbia) featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Suburbia), 2004, Edition of 3/3, 50x60cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, not mounted, signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,498 Sale Price
50% Off
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 -
20x24cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 19141.
Signature label and Certificate.
N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay) - 2006
37x36cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory #5606.
Not mounted.
Torsten ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection based on an o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
For Members only (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
For Members only (Suburbia) - 2004
28x37cm,
Edition of 10,
digital C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate,
Not mounted.
Artist Inventory # 400.
THE GREA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom II
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
On Hold - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'On Hold' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
98x97cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila's Studio (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 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
If I could fly (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
If I could fly (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x50cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 20058.
Signature label and Certificate.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pool at Night (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool at Night (Suburbia) 2004, 50x50cm, Edition of of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" was shot...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Oregon (Strange Love) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oregon (Strange Love) - 2007
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 9916. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memories of Green II, triptych, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Green II, triptych,
Edition 1/5 , 2003
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 58x178cm,
3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Three Girls VII (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls VII (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.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$245 Sale Price
30% Off
Three Girls VI (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls VI (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.
A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
$245 Sale Price
30% Off
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, 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;...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$268 Sale Price
30% Off
A Memory - Strange Love
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Memory (Strange Love) – 2010
20x24 cm, Edition 1/10
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 6131.01
Not mounted
“I never remembe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dust Bowl Blues (Heavenly Falls)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dust Bowl Blues (Heavenly Falls)
2016, 20x24cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19651.02
Not mounted
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, 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...
Category
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$268 Sale Price
30% Off
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée's Dream - Jules and Jim II - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jules and Jim II (Renée's Dream) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2007
125x123cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certific...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Making Magic (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Making Magic (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) -
78x76cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, 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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, 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.
...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Forest Haze (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Forest Haze (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Art...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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 ...
Category
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...
Category
1990s 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...
Category
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. ...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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. ...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Prince #02 (The Princess and her Lover), analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Prince II (The Princess and her Lover) - 2009 -
98x96cm,
Edition 1/5.
Analog C-Print based, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Girl at Fence III (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl at Fence III (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
58x56cm.
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Marilyn (Heavenly Falls) - triptych - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Marilyn (Heavenly Falls) - triptych - mounted - 2016,
Edition 1/10,
38x37cm each, installed 38x120cm.
3 Lambda C-Prints, based on three original Polaroids.
Sandwiched in betwee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Max hitches into Town (29 Palms, CA) Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max hitches into Town (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
Edition of 5,
each 29x37cm,
Analog C-Print, enlarged and hand-printed by the artist
printed on Fuji Crystal Archival Paper, matte surfac...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA) - 2006,
Edition of 10,
60x80cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
on Fuji Crystal Archival Paper, matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia IV (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia IV (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
Beachshoot
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée's Dream XV (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XV (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006
Edition of 10,
20x20cm,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Officer's Wives Club - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Officer's Wives Club (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999
Edition of 23/25,
40x40cm each, installed 40x87cm, including gap.
2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 2 Polaroids.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Artist inventory number: 316.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
29 PALMS, CA is a film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The world depicted in the film is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and
explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. The characters portrayed in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic, a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on), are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real-life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense, the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them. The structure of the plot is fairly simple. An actress working as a telemarketer is inspired by a singer who is new to town and is featured on the local radio station. The radio station runs a program for lonely hearts and a charismatic DJ uses the show to reveal the hopes and dreams of the town's “hottest women”. One night a panicked German female caller captivates the community with a painful story about a sexy “Smoke Jumper” (a mysterious and super real alpha male). Everybody in town is listening to the program and nobody is quite sure what to say. Life in general continues and we witness and explore the various interactions. The actress meets the singer and they become famous. The US Army soldier dies on his way to battle. The foreign princess discovers that the jewels she has come to sell are fake. The motel owner‘s wife has an affair with the pool boys and so on. All the while the community is united by their loyalty to the “Lonely Hearts” radio show and through the disturbing revelations of the German woman...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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