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Landscape Photography For Sale
Period: 1990s
Period: 1940s
Palm Springs E-Type Abstract (Californication) - Polaroid, Jaguar, vintage
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs E-Type Abstract (Californication) - 2021 30x40cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Untitled - Venice Beach, Contemporary, Landscape, expired, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Venice Beach) - 1998 Edition 2/5, 48x56cm Analog C-Print, enlarged and hand-printed by the artist mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, Based on a Polaroid Artist...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 50x49cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Just Landed (Long Way Home) - featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Just Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999 featuring Radha Mitchell 57x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #260. Not mounted. 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...
Category

1990s Pop Art Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
TERRY EVANS (American b. 1944) "Terraced Plowing," September 4, 1990, Color photograph (chromogenic print, C Print) on photo paper, dated and hand signed...
Category

1990s American Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Women in Malibu II (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Woman in Malibu II (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 315_2.26 No...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Burning Field V (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burning Field V (The Last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventor...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Burning Field III (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burning Field (The Last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Bekins (analog) 60x70cm - Edition 1/10, mounted - Polaroid, 20th Century, Blue
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bekins (Stranger than Paradise) 1999, 60x70cm, Edition 1/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminu...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Pegasus
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Atlas Shrugged 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Not Mounted.
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Western Pacific (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Western Pacific (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Landscape Photography

Materials

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

The America Dream (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The America Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Magic Hour (Musica Poetica)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - 1999 Edition 3/10, 44x59cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificat...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Untitled 417-9
Located in New York, NY
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso Also blindstamped with artist's name and edition number, recto 8 x 8 inches, image size (Ed...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

A Woman (Musica Poetica)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Woman (Musica Poetica) - 1997 Edition 1/10, 44x59cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate a...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Erich Andres, Vintage, Rouen, 1941, 17, 5 x 12, 4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1941. This photograph, taken in 1941 in Rouen, France, depicts a foggy street scene during World War II. The street is lined with traditional h...
Category

1940s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Shell (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shell (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature ...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Mont Llia, Wales (One single stone in field)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled 407-10
Located in New York, NY
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso Also blindstamped with artist's name and edition number, recto 8 x 8 inches, image size (Ed...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Dry Season" Zebra Herd at Watering Hole Wildlife Photograph Edition 330/950
Located in Houston, TX
Color wildlife photograph from 1991 by photojournalist Thomas Mangelsen. The work features a herd of zebras gathered around a watering hole. Signed, dated, and editioned 33/950 along lower from margin. Currently hung a complementary black frame with a cream matting. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24.5 in. x W 35 in. Artist Biography: A Nebraska native, Mangelsen’s love of nature, his life outdoors and business success were heavily influenced by his father. An avid sportsman, Harold Mangelsen took his sons to favorite blinds along the Platte River in Nebraska to observe the great flocks of ducks, geese and cranes that migrate through the valley. From these adventures, Mangelsen learned important lessons for photographing in the field, most notably patience and understanding animal behavior. In 1965, Mangelsen began studying business at the University of Nebraska. In 1967, Tom transferred to Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, where he changed his major and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Tom continued postgraduate study in zoology and wildlife biology at the University of Nebraska and Colorado State University. In 1970 Mangelsen moved to Nederland, Colorado. He spent two years living in the Rocky Mountains in an old mining shack without electricity or running water with his English setter, black lab and raccoon. Tom continued to work on his photography and studied arctic alpine ecology at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station near Nederland. There he met Bert Kempers, a CU film producer, who later hired Tom as cinematographer and film editor for his company Westwind Productions, making educational and nature documentaries. Tom longed to make a documentary about the Platte River and its great wildlife resource. He returned to the Platte each spring to film the great crane migration. These experiences led to Tom traveling to the cranes’ nesting grounds in Alaska and their wintering areas in Texas. National Geographic television wanted to produce a documentary, which would chronicle the plight of the endangered whooping crane...
Category

1990s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Dumbo
Located in Miami, FL
"Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Dumbo" is an exemplary work and part of a new epic exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Building for 50 Years. The Ch...
Category

1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certifi...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Herefordshire House 1995 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Herefordshire House' by Christopher Simon Sykes An open window gives a view along a country lane in Herefordshire, from the home of filmmaker John Bulmer and sculptor Angela Connor...
Category

1990s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Volvo 1800ES (Zuma Beach) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Volvo 1800ES (Zuma Beach) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 3/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back and Certificate. Artist Inventory #202. ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu - 2001, 20x30cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Certificate and Sig...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Color, Polaroid

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu - 2001, 20x83cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid

Slim Aarons 'Megachess' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 Estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
Category

1990s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Landed (Long Way Home) - Polaroid, analog, Contemporary, pop-art - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999, 20x20cm, Edition of 25, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #796. ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

White Tank - My own Private Travel Diary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Tank (My Own Private Travel Diary), 1999 20x25cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and S...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Erich Andres, Vintage, Amrum, Germany, 1938, 17, 5 x 12, 4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1941. This photograph, taken in 1938 on Amrum, shows a lighthouse keeper standing on the observation deck of the lighthouse. He is wearing a u...
Category

1940s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Self Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Self Portrait - 2001 20x30cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Certificate and Sign...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Color, Polaroid

Diptych Arena de la Playa and Techos, Mexico, Vintage Photography. Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract ...
Category

1940s Other Art Style Landscape Photography

Materials

Other Medium, Black and White

Marlboro from Stranger than Paradise - last Artist Proof 2/2
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Marlboro' (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 sold out Edition of 5, This is the last Artist Proof 2/2, 50x60cm analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist not mounted signature Label...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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

Scorpion (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Scorpion (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/3. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and C...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Leixlip Castle 1990 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Leixlip Castle circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes An oil painting, various saddles and an old trunk in Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) ...
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1990s Modern Landscape Photography

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C Print, Color

Ploughman's Cottage, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire, 1993 - Interior Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Ploughman's Cottage, photograph from Richard Heeps' series, A View of the Fens from the Car with Wings. Richard Heeps is well known for documenting the unique Fenland landscape near ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Blue Dress (Sidewinder) - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Dress (Sidewinder) Proof b4 Printing / 2005, 38x36cm analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, signed on front. This is a raw analog C-print, hand-print...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

The Voyeur
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Voyeur 20x30cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Medium format Negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Wildflowers (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wildflowers (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, Edition 5/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inven...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Burning Field IV (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burning Field IV (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. ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Real II, Amsterdam'
Located in New York, NY
MASSIMO LISTRI Palazzo Real II, Amsterdam (From the series Perspectives), 1992 C-print Edition of 5 120 x 150 cm 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

"Tibetan Prayer Flags" Sepia Toned Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Tibetan Prayer Flags" Sepia Toned Photograph Serene photo of flags in a yard by Heidi L Sherman (American, 1954-5014). Two rows of prayer flags...
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1990s Photorealist Landscape Photography

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Platinum

Trains (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Trains (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Labe...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Gas station at Night II (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gas Station at Night I (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 37x36cm, Edition of 30, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #391. Not...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Kemio, Finland (Children laying in hammock in lush garden)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017. Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dawn Mist, Mont St. Michel, France
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential am...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Shaman (The Girl...) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Photo
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Shaman (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 80x80cm, Edition of 5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Crystal Pap...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Somewhere in Australia
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somewhere in Australia, 1995 - 46x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Radha Mind Screen - part 3 (Starnger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Mind Screen II (Stranger than Paradise), 1999, 20x20cm, Artist Proof 1/2, sold out Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

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...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Road, Angelina National Forest, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson David H. Gibso...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, Australia
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somewhere in Australia, 1995 - 20x32cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Skylark (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Skylark (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition 5/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature La...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Mindscreen 03 - Contemporary, analog, vintage print, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 03 - 1999 Edition 1/5. 126x126cm including the white frame. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back with Certificate. Artis...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Metal

Manhattan Skyline
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wolff Buchholz Title: Manhattan Skyline Medium: Photograph Year: 1990 Signed, dated and titled by hand Edition: 6 Size: 11.9 × 16.4 inches
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1990s Post-Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

USS Roosevelt, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The USS Roosevelt aircraft carriers on the Hudson River, New York, during Navy Day...
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1940s Modern Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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