Contemporary Figurative Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Boccia II (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia II (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 14...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Accident II (Stay) with Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Accident III (Stay) -2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5339. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ewan McGregor - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ewan McGregor' (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 5007.01
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Childhood Memories - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, Ocean, Dog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Buried - Contemporary, Landscape, Figurative, expired, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory N...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Curtains (Cyndi Lauper) - 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Curtains (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Floaties #4 (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Vintage, analog, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Floaties #4 (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A lonely and deserted Place (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A lonely and deserted Place (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013,
80x80cm,
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on printed on Fuji Archive Paper,
ba...
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
Edition of 10,
50x50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature Label.
Artist inventory Number 3602.13.
Not mount...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Car Wash - Contemporary, Landscape, Cityscape, expired, Polaroid, analog, Blue
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Car Wash (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
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
Metal
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Runaway (Haley and the Birds)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Runaway' (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid
Polaroid sized open Editi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Plexiglass, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Childhood Memories - 21st Century, Polaroid, Beach, Ocean, Dog, Contempoary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
58x56cm,
Edition of 5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surfa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 2005
20 x 24 cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory 3045.
Not mounted.
sidewinder
...
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
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 the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inven...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signatu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signatu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Runaway (Haley and the Birds)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Runaway' (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid
Polaroid sized open Edi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, 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 the Polaroid.
Edition of 10 Artist inventory 20047.
Signature label and Certificat...
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 the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9493.
Signature label an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
128x127cm,
Edition 3/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9283.03.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunset II (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset II (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Gossip (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gossip (Beachshoot) - 2005
40x80cm including white border.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Aimless (Wastelands), triptych, analog, mounted - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Aimless - It all began quite simply I was very happy - (Wastelands), triptych - 2003
Edition 2/5,
57 x 56 cm each, installed 57 x 180cm,
3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
'Dreaming of the Lighthouse' based on an original Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreaming of the Lighthouse (29 Palms, CA), 1999,
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2006
40x48cm,.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Boccia II (Beachshoot ) Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia II (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
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - Edition 4/5 - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 4 of 5,
125x123 cm.
Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Cristal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory 9250.04.
Not mounted.
Note: the addional images show the edition 3/5 mounted (sold).
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part
or “There is Only the Desert for You.”
BY DREW HAMMOND
Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Color
Stefanie Schneider Minis - 2 Minis from the Beachshoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
2 Stefanie Schneider's Minis
from the Beachshoot: The Diva and the Boy
signed on front, not mounted
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on original expired Polaroid photographs
P...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
It Rains on our Love (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It Rains on our Love (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
70x195cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the 21 original Polaroids.
Certificate and Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 2005
20 x 24 cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory 3045.
Not mounted.
sidewinder
"private history turned into an intimate mythology of elemental fantasies where reality is perceived through a veil of psychedelic memories and unconscious projections. such is a collection of passions and dreams, an uncanny diary of ephemeral narratives and mental intensities in Stefanie Schneider’s painterly photographs...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
90x112cm,
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9493.02.
Signature l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
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
Frenzy (Sidewinder) - not mounted, analog, last Edition - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frenzy (Sidewinder) - 2005
125x156cm, Edition 5/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3048.05,
Not mounted.
This piece was used by the Salzburger Festspiele 2008 for the main image campaign.
Stefanie Schneider, Sidewinder
Exhibit • Galeries of the City of Salzburg • Galerie am Mozartplatz
July 16 – August 29, 2008
“For love is as strong as death” – this motto, taken from King Salomon’s Song of Songs, is at the programmatic center of the Salzburg Festival...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - 3 Minis from the movie Stay
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider's Minis
from the movie Stay: 'Forgive me', 'Lila', 'Jellyfish'
with Naomi Watts
Signed in front, not mounted
Lambda digital C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Tree in the Plane (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tree in the Plane (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
Three Girls X (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls X (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...
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
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
Boccia (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia (Beachshoot) - 2005
70x135cm installed, including gaps - 8 pieces, 30x30cm each,
almost sold out Edition of 100 plus 3 Artist Proofs.
Available 100/100, AP 1/3, AP 3/3.
Arc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Penny Lane and Dreamgirl (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane and Dreamgirl (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x60cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 19139.
Signature label and C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer IV (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer IV (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
80x79cm,
Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate ...
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 ) 48x47cm, + Soundtrack LP
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 4/5,
48 x 47 cm.
Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory 9250.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
This Edition comes with the vinyl soundtrack of "Till Death Do Us Part" (directed by Stefanie Schneider), music by Daisy McCrackin.
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part
or “There is Only the Desert for You.”
BY DREW HAMMOND
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements:
1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting images rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image.
2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist.
3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist.
At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work.
First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real-time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality.
Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions.
This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Runaway (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Runaway (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Early 2000s 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
Edition of 10,
50x50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature Label.
Artist inventory Number 3602.13.
Not mount...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Pursuit of Happiness - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Pursuit of Happiness (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024...
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) - 2006
Part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
50x50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flight of Stairs II - featuring Naomi Watts - Polaroid, 21st Century
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 Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
20x24cm each, 20x80cm installed.
3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) - analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum wit...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Max by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA), 1999
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda Color Photographs based on the original Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, 21st Century, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
from the 29 Palms, CA Project
4 pieces 70x90cm installed, 30x40cm each.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs,.
4 archival C-Prin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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...
Category
Early 2000s 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
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signatu...
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)
Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Lambda Print based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 21327B.
Signature label and Cert...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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