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Stefanie SchneiderDesert Living (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid2017
2017
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€339.45
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About the Item
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 21292.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider
A German View of the American West
Stefanie Schneider captures the American West not as it is, but as it lingers in memory—fractured, sun-bleached, and haunted by longing. Born in Germany in 1968, Schneider has become a defining voice in contemporary art, shaping a uniquely cinematic language from expired Polaroid film and faded dreams.
Her images echo the emotional solitude of Edward Hopper, the symbolic terrain of Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ed Ruscha’s fascination with the vernacular West—but Schneider’s vision is entirely her own. Working between Berlin and California, she photographs in the deserts and forgotten outskirts of the Southwest before developing and enlarging the prints by hand—a process relocated fully to California in 2020.
What sets Schneider apart is her alchemy of deterioration and desire. The chemical decay of expired Polaroid film becomes a metaphor for love lost, time passed, and the fragility of connection. “Love, lost and unrequited, leaves its mark in our lives as a senseless pain that has no place in the present,” she says. Her work doesn’t illustrate absence—it feels like absence.
Figures drift across motel beds, abandoned trailers, and oil fields, alone or dislocated from one another. These characters—played by real people, often over long arcs of time—exist in Schneider’s universe like ghost limbs, flickering at the edge of recognition. Their world is liminal: between fiction and autobiography, memory and myth.
Through her lens, the American West becomes not a place, but a psychic terrain—one that anyone, anywhere, might recognize as home.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2017
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316368212
Stefanie Schneider
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.
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Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 21292.
Not mounted.
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