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Figurative Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Tyler Shields
Red Shoes (Stage of Consciousness) starring Radha Mitchell - 40x50cm, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Red Shoes (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Dibond with matte UV-Protection.
Signed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Matilda (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Matilda (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019
50x49cm,
Edition of 10. plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory 22234.
Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Whisky Dance I - Sidewinder - 8 pieces based on the original SX-70 Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky Dance I (Sidewinder) - 2005,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
20x20cm each, installed including gaps 50x90cm, 8 pieces.
8 Archival C-Prints, based on the 8 original Po...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art 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
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,
50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signatur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Palm Trees on Wilcox - Contemporary, Polaroid, mounted under Plexi
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
78x76cm,
Edition of 100.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Mounted under matte Plexiglass.
Artist inventory...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Her last Call III - Women, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Her last Call III'
(The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Invento...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part ) 30x30cm, + Soundtrack LP
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 48/50.
30 x 30 cm,
Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Palm Trees on Wilcox - not mounted, 80x78cm - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
80x78cm,
Edition of 100,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girls
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Girls' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 9361.08
Not mount...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila's Studio II (Stay) Naomi Watts- 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
Sunscreen I (Beachshoot) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunscreen I (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print print,
based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory # 1390.
Not mounted.
featuring...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Color
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - analog, Contemporary, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
125x154cm,
Edition 1/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Astroland (Stay) Mini - mounted - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis -
The size of a Polaroid.
Astroland (Stay), 2006.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Polaroid...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Under the Influence (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Under the Influence' (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album Shoot - 2009
20x24cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - analog, mounted, Installation
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - Installation - 2008
Edition of 5.
16 analog C-Prints , hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on 13 Polaroids, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
When we were friends II (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm,
Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" wa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print 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
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
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Farewell (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
70x80cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory No...
Category
2010s 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
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
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, 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
Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
Exhibitions Selected (selected)
2018
Participation Bombay Beach Biennale, Bombay Beach, USA (G) March
Available to All, Rough Play Projects - Site Specific, Joshou Tree, USA (G) curated by Deborah Martin with Adam Berg, Doron Gazit, Kellan Barnebey, Chris Sanchez, Aili Schmelzt
2017
BLICKFELD Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
Rosegallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (G)
Magie des Moments, Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)
2016
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin
(S)
2015
Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky
The Ballery in Heat, The Ballery, Berlin (G)
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G)
2014
Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G)
6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G)
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
2013
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images
For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog)
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)
2012
Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S)
Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S)
Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, and others.
MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) with Kourtney Roy and Eric Weeks
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog)
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog)
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May 2012
Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen
Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S)
2011
Kunst zu verlosen ! // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Nipple - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nipple - Bathtime IV (29 Palms, CA)
1999, 40x40cm, Edition 1/10,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
Edition 2/10, 20x20cm,
Based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and signature label,
Not mounted, Artist inve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - 2004
50x50cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate.
Artist inventory #19313.
Not mounte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - Beachshoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider
(Beachshoot) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory Nr. 898.08, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Phoenix Rising (Strange Love) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Phoenix Rising (Strange Love) - 2007
20x20cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 9923.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia III (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia III (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila's Studio (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's art 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 art was the art both created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as art paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie.
“I never remember the details of a Stefanie Schneider image, just the whole. She treads a third path between reality and dream that connects the two and truly sparks my artistic, visual freedom.” (Marc Forster)
This piece:
Lila's Studio (Stay) with Noami Watts and Ewan McGregor - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5109.
Not mounted.
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...
Category
Early 2000s 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 10, 58x56cm each, installed 58x123cm, including gap.
2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 2 Polaro...
Category
Early 2000s 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
Glitter Champagne
Located in New York City, NY
Available Sizes:
18 x 18 Edition of 3
30 x 30 Edition of 3
45 x 45 Edition of 3
60 x 60 Edition of 3
Los Angeles-based photographer Tyler Shields seeks “beauty in chaos,” capturing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999,
20 x 20 cm, Edition 5/10,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid
Artist Inventory 3182.18.
Not mounted
Stefanie Schneider's s...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Light Blue Lingerie (Wastelands)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Light Blue Lingerie - however - (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition 4/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Badwater (Memories of Green) 4 analog hand-prints, 58x56cm each
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych (four pieces), - 2003
Edition 1/5,
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 122x117cm,
analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crysta...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
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
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) featuring Radha Mitchell, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
128x125cm, Edition 3/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted on A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Boccia I (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia I (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring Cam...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate.
Artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lost (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lost (Suburbia) - 2004
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 1670.
Not mounted...
Category
Early 2000s 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 an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" wa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24 cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Edition of 10 Artist inventory 20047.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
2010s 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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24cm, Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 21327B.
Signature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Calliope (50x50cm) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21 Century, Color, Mystical
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Calliope (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Stefanie ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Daisy and Austin in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - analog, vintage
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austin in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
128x126cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the origina...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Balancing (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid, Chicken, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Balancing (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certif...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2006
38x36cm,
Edition 2/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature Label.
Artist inventory Number 3602.
Not mounted....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reload! (Wastelands) - mounted - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reload! - I changed my mind (Wastelands) - 2003
Edition 2/5,
57x56cm,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist invent...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Her last Call III - Women, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Her last Call III'
(The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Invento...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
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
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 a Polaroid
Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, 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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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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.
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