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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Archival Paper
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
The Blue Pill to forget (Burned) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Blue Pill to forget (Burned) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Indian Summer (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Indian Summer (The Last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 459. Not mounted. Ste...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Leaving (Strange Love)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving (Strange Love) - 2005 20x30cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a 35mm film. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneid...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005 50x39cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No. 91...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Indian Summer III (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Indian Summer III (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label Artist Inventory No 892. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider - Artist Statement Desolation and solitude are two words that come to mind when describing my Polaroid photographs. Another is the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi—the art of finding beauty in imperfection and transience. The simplicity of “flawed beauty” emerges from the expired film I use, reflecting themes of love and loneliness. My work is a meditation on impermanence, an acceptance of a worldview that has no return. The shiny, idealized lens through which we once saw the world is crumbling—and has been for some time. What was once labeled blurry, broken, or botched now stands as a testament to the beauty of imperfection. For some, this is a seismic shift: acknowledging that reality is cracked, fragmented, and imperfect. Yet, even in this age when the cracks are impossible to ignore, acceptance remains elusive. But isn’t that unsettling? To admit that the dream is decaying, transforming into something closer to a nightmare? Denial feels safer than facing the truth of ruin. It’s human nature to resist the notion of finitude, the idea that all things—ourselves, even God—have their time and fade away. Yet this acknowledgment of impermanence is at the core of my work. I began my journey in photography before the digital revolution, before the era of Instagram, in a time when analog film demanded a different kind of mindfulness. With Polaroid, every shot is a commitment—a single, unrepeatable moment. There is no endless editing, no post-production safety net. This analog process became my way of celebrating imperfection and reconnecting with the raw, unpolished world, where flaws are not hidden but embraced. Polaroid film, with its candy-like color palette and unpredictable blemishes, felt like an extension of my vision. The quirks and distortions of expired film brought me a sense of inner peace, mirroring the imperfections in life itself. It was liberating—a visual language that honored the “perfectly imperfect” and invited others to see their own scars as remarkable. There are two ways to view the world: through a lens that embraces imperfection or one that denies it. But let me warn you—once you open your eyes to the beauty of imperfection, there’s no turning back. You step into a twilight zone of understanding, where the polished, artificial perfection of the past loses its appeal. My creative process hinges on allowing space and time for magic to manifest—capturing moments of serendipity, often born from turbulence and imbalance. It’s the interplay of chaos and stillness that allows unknown forces to shape a moment. To me, this is the essence of art: a dialogue between the inner self and the external world, where rules dissolve, and emotions take precedence. Dreams are the foundation of my work. They connect us to our subconscious, bridging the space between personal vision and shared experience. My photographs invite you to step into these dreamscapes, to become part of the story. Nostalgia, emotion, and instinct—spiced with a hint of desire—are the ingredients of my art. Ultimately, my work is about liberation: freeing ourselves from the tyranny of perfection, honoring the beauty in the transient and the flawed, and finding a space where it’s not just permissible—but essential—to simply be. 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., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018 / 2019. “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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

She need not move (Sidewinder) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
She need not move (Sidewinder) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #3298 Not mounted. St...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Reflection of my Mind - including the signed monograph 'Instantdreams'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reflection of my Mind (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 Including Stefanie Schneider's signed monograph 'Instantdreams'. 64 pages, hardcover, published by Avenso, 2014. ISBN 978-3-93...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

The Girl V (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Spartan, Vintage
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Girl V (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) 2013, 125x125cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surface, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 115704.02. Not Mounted. Schneider harnesses the unpredictable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film, where bursts of color erupt across the surface, destabilizing the photograph's traditional allegiance to reality. These vivid distortions draw her characters into ethereal, trance-like dreamscapes. Like fleeting sequences from a vintage road movie, Schneider’s images shimmer with a transitory quality, dissolving before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Their ephemeral essence is conveyed through subtle gestures and enigmatic motives. Refusing to yield to the constraints of reality, Schneider’s work keeps alive a delicate interplay of dream, desire, fact, and fiction, blurring the boundaries between them with poetic ambiguity. Stefanie Schneider’s work echoes the heart of American art, channeling the cinematic nostalgia of Ed Ruscha’s roadscapes, the stark sensuality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the haunting solitude of Edward Hopper’s paintings...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Harbor Building, LA - Contemporary, Landscape, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Harbor Building, LA - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. artist Inventory No. 18361. No...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Daisy in front of Trailer - including the signed monograph 'Instantdreams'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's signed monograph "Instantdreams". 64 pages, hardcover, published by Avenso, 2014. ISBN 978-3...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Palm Springs Wabi-Sabi (Californication) - Polaroid, vintage, contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Wabi-Sabi (Californication) - 2021 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
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1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

A Vision you can't Capture # 03 (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't Capture #03 (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 A piece from the project: 29 Palms, CA 50x61cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Riviera (Malibu)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Riviera (Malibu) - 2004 50x50cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 668. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider’s w...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

A Vision you can't Capture no 02 (29 Palms, CA) - 125x172cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't Capture, no 03 (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 125x172cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum with matte...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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Metal

Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Into the Sun (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the Sun (Stranger than Paradise) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Invent...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

A Vision you can't Capture # 03 (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't Capture #03 (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 A piece from the project: 29 Palms, CA 50x61cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Riviera (Malibu) - analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Riviera (Malibu) - 2004 Edition 4/5, 39x37cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 668.04. Mounted on Aluminum with matte U...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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Metal

Drive-In (American Depression) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Drive-In (American Depression) - 2017 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 20...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Strange Days (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strange Days (Wastelands) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1177 Not mounted. Stefan...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Athena and Henry (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser
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 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. Athena and Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, - 2006, 56x55cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2428.01. 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, the British shooting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006 with Ryan Gosling 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2050. No...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Gasoline II, triptych - Stranger than Paradise - Sold out Edition of 150, AP 4/5
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gasoline II (Stranger than Paradise) 1999 - 3 pieces, each 50x50cm, installed 50x170cm including gaps. sold out Edition of 150, Artist Proof 4/5. Archival C-Prints, based on 3 Po...
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1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Desert Roses (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Roses (California Dreaming) - 2017 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Planes III
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planes II - 2008 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4651. Not mounted. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer - including monograph 'Instantdreams'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's signed monograph "Instantdreams". 64 pages, hardcover, published by Avenso, 2014. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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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...
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1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999, 20x20cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20452. 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, that 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 have 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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Letham House (Stay) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Letham House (Stay) - 2006 Edition of 10, 6 pieces 82x80cm each, installed 174x260cm. 6 archival C-Prints, based on the 6 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

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

Nadia running (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Venice from the Sea (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artis...
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1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Henry (Stay) - with Ryan Gosling - 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 38x36cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels) - 2005 39x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No....
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Spartan Trailers (American Depression) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Airstream Trailers (American Depression) - 2017 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005 50x39cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No. 2779. Not mounted. M...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Waiting (Sidewinder) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Sidewinder) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x20cm, Edit...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Planes' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Planes' - 2001 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photograph based on the Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 1...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Dodgers Stadium, Echo Park - Polaroid, Landscape, 20th Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dodgers Stadium, Echo Park (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 50x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label....
Category

1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Leaving (Strange Love)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving (Strange Love) - 2005 20x30cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 35mm film. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. “I never reme...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4600. Signat...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Moving Underpass East River (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Austen in front of Trailer - including the signed monograph 'Instantdreams'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's signed monograph "Instantdreams". 64 pages, hardcover, published by Avenso, 2014. ISBN 978-...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 2016 20x20cm, Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Mounted under matte Plexiglass. Artist inventory number: 398. Sig...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs Palm Trees XII (Californication) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees XI (Californication) - 2019 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory Number 22...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper 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) - 2021 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
Category

1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Jordan (Wastelands) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jordan (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 10, 38x36cm, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1176.13. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. The wo...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

Metal

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Last Season (Wastelands), diptych, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Season - so I walked away from my Valley (Wastelands), diptych - 2003 Edition 2/5, 57 x 56 cm each, installed 57 x 118cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji C...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Running with Guns (Long Way Home) analog, last Edition
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Running with Guns (Long Way Home) - 1999, 58x56cm, published in 'Stranger than Paradise', Edition 2/10 (last available Edition). analog C-Print based on a Polaroid, hand-printed ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

Metal

Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - Polaroid, Jaguar, vintage, contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - 2021 24x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
Category

1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

A vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 38 x 50 cm, Edition of 30. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 41...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Leaving Town (Sidewinder)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving Town (Sidewinder) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Vacant (California Badlands) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Vacant (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10952. Not mounted. Ste...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 20x24m, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Manhattan (Stay) - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, Polaroid, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider Stefanie Schneider created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - Polaroid, Jaguar, vintage, contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - 2021 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
Category

1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Roy's (California Badlands) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roys (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10946. Not mounted. The w...
Category

2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Moving Underpass East River (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Archival Paper landscape photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Archival Paper landscape photography available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add landscape photography created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Gerald Berghammer, Stefanie Schneider, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and David Drebin. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Archival Paper landscape photography, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available

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