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Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

On the Way to Big Sur (The Last Picture Show) - 2000 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 969. ...

Guadalupe (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Crystal Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory...

Untitled (The Last Picture Show), 2005 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original SX-70 Polaroid. Inventory No. 781.02. 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 The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised.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...

'Plantation Cocoyer' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. (Photo by Slim Aarons) C Print P...

9-11 Contact Sheet 2001 Signed and numbered, verso Chromogenic print 14 x 11 inches (Edition of 25) $2,500 20 x 16 inches (Edition of 15) $3,500 This ...

Alternative sizes and media available: 16 x 16 16 x 20 16 x 24 20 x 20 20 x 30 28 x 28 28 x 35 30 x 45 40 x 40 40 x 50 40 x 60 Matte photo paper or canvas available on...

'Manhattan Island' by Stuart Möller Portrait photograph of the island of Manhattan and the New York Skyline. New York City, New York, 2014. A bea...

American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certi...

Slim Aarons Funk In Tuscany, 1969 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Marta Marzotta playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brio...

The Second Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Clifts Wilderness, Arizona Photograph on Kodak Professional Paper, c. 1980's Unsigned Condition: Excellent Mi...

Kaufmann House, Palm Springs Architect: Richard Neutra Kodak digital color print Print size: 20" x 24" (50.80 x 60.96) Image size: 15" x 20" (39.10 x ...

A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. Slim Aarons Pool on the Amalfi Coast Chromogenic Lambda ...

The production of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human intervention in natural spaces. Sea salt comes from natural evaporation of seawater out of artificial created ponds. Th...

The production of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human intervention in natural spaces. Sea salt comes from natural evaporation of seawater out of artificial created ponds. Th...

Pool On Amalfi Coast A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edit...

Self Portrait (Paris) - 1995 50x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #25087. N...

'Porto Ercole' Italy 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. Produced fro...

Street Below by Alain Le Garsmeur Looking over the Streets of Harlem, New York City, USA, the 1970s. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the o...

Slim Aarons - Mazatlan Mansion - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984 (Photo by Slim Aarons). This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'. A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C Type photograph (unframed). Limited edition to 150 only numbered and stamped by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152.4 x 101.6 cm’s paper size. Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only. Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source. FRAMING: Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service. If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote. We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations. Keywords fashion 80s 1980s mid 80s Mexican mansions wonderful family time swimming pool green palm trees luxurious vegetation tropic temperatures luxurious garden red flowers bikini sunny day sunshine summer breeze Eldorado family villa holiday destination holiday house Mexico Gulf of Mexico Pacific Ocean Gulf of California Mazatlán is a Nahuatl word meaning "place of deer city founded by Spanish conquistadores Mazatlán into a thriving commercial seaport, importing equipment for the nearby gold and silver mines German settlers Bavarian folk music Pacifico Brewery 1900 rich culture and art community Redo family influential merchants and politicians during the 30-year rule of President Porfirio Diaz...

Reinhard Görner Toreno Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 50 x 59.7 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 71.7 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 83.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered...

Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...

These photographs are Dye Sublimation Prints. Framing options available. "Surfing Color" presents photographs that are abstract creations born from realism. Kocharian emphasizes th...

Campbell Kitchen (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 1/10, 65x60cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on the Polaroid with ...

Pulitzer On The Beach Patsy Pulitzer at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Produced utilisi...

The Farmer and his Wife (American Depression) - 2004 50 x 49 cm, edition of 10 plus two Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. A...

Day Worker (American Depression) - 1999 58x57cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Cert...

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