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Art Subject: City
Reportage from Albania - Children in Durazzo - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - children of Durazzo - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1980s. Good conditions. the landscape of Albania through the art of photography...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Leica (Key West), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

St. Mary's Basilica and Flying Birds, Krakow, Poland
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Park Avenue - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Park Avenue A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later Slim Aarons Esta...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Industrial Wasteland (American Depression) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Industrial Wasteland (American Depression) - 2017 “How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 24x20cm, Edi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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

New York City Skyline With Clouds
Located in London, GB
New York City Skyline With Clouds 2022 by Orbon Alija C print Oversize 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Unframed Framing & different Sizes availabl...
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2010s Modern Landscape Photography

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C Print, Color

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961. Slim Aarons Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Gstaad, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Ski Photography, Vintage Sport Photography, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Switzerland, Vintage Swiss Ski photography, 1960s, '60s photography, 1960s ski...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

LES (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: LES (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscriptio...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Reportage from Albania - Street of Tirana - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Albania - Street of Tirana - Photograph is a vintage photo in color. Good conditions. the landscape of Albania through the art of photography...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Caddy (Palm Springs), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Yellow Caddy, East 2nd St. (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Albania - Tirana - Photograph is a vintage photograph in color. Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Midtown Manhattan Sunset, Original Cityscape Photography
Located in Boston, MA
Midtown Manhattan Sunset, Original Cityscape Photography, 2017 8" x 17" (HxW) Photographic Print The city skyline encompasses the horizon with the skyscrapers glowing a yellow orange from the light of the sunset. Clouds float over New York as the day transitions into night. This urban setting never fails to impress as it is juxtaposed between sky and water. Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed. Artist Commentary: Sunset of Midtown Manhattan from Hoboken, New Jersey Artist Biography: William brings many years of creative experience to the table. He possesses an MFA in Cinematography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His studies have taken him around the world. In the summer of 2008 he studied at the prestigious Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the fifth oldest film school in the world. In 2011, while completing his masters, Will traveled to Dublin, to work on the Academy Award nominated film Albert Nobbs starring Glenn Close...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper

Piccadilly Lights by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Piccadilly Lights by Alain Le Garsmeur Neon advertisements shining behind the Eros Statue in Piccadilly, London, England, 1972. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in ...
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1970s Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

San Francisco Escapes by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
San Francisco Escapes by Alain Le Garsmeur A man walks under fire escapes on the streets of San Francisco, California, 1979. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 20...
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1970s Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - NY Apartments - Oversize
Located in London, GB
NY Apartments A block of apartments on Park Lane in New York. The building is stepped so that the design includes balconies for flats on each floor. Slim Aarons silver gelatine f...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Green Car, Venice (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bhutan Religious Photography - Open Sky Neutral Blue, Silver, and Yellow Tones. Photography. Edition Print. Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Braz...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

NYC (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: NYC (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscriptio...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Produced utili...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

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C Print, Color

Venice Car (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Purple Explosion, Original Cityscape Photography
Located in Boston, MA
Purple Explosion, Original Cityscape Photography, 2017 10" x 19" (HxW) Photographic Print This sunset caught over New York's Central Park Reservoir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper

Truck, East 5th St. (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Car, Ave A, 5th St. (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Venice Covered Car (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Watts Vintage Car (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Blue Caddy, 5th St. (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Green Car, Venice, Back Lane (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Covered Car, Venice (Los Angeles), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick, 1981, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Robbert Flick
Located in Dallas, TX
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick is a 16 x 20 in silver gelatin print. This print features 49 small images of black and white landscapes presented in a grid. Each image measures 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. This print is from Robbert Flick's Sequential Views series from his America Roads Portfolio. It is signed, titled and dated by Robbert Flick. Robbert Flick, Professor Emeritus, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. He has been exhibiting his photographs for over 50 years and his work has been shown and collected by numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships and in 2001 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectorieswas shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004 accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalog co-published by LACMA and Steidl. In 2016 Nazraeli Press published “Robbert Flick LA Diary”. He is represented by ROSE Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

EUR - Vintage Offset by Franco Fontana - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
EUR is a beautiful offset realized by Franco Fontana. Good conditions. Colored poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the Italian most famous contempor...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Offset

TV Window View (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: TV Window View (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Shower Girl (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: Shower Girl (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 24, plus proofs Size: 17 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent In...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Bank, Bradford, PA.
Located in Toronto, ON
Bank, Bradford, PA, 2022. Edition of 7 with 3 Artist’s Proofs. Bob Hambly has that rare talent to find the uncanny, yet familiar, and compose it into an extraordinary photograph. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Remedy Diner (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: Remedy Diner (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 12, plus proofs Size: 24 x 36 inches Condition: Excellent I...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Inkjet

Fanelli’s, SoHo (New York City), Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: Fanelli’s, SoHo (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 24, plus proofs Size: 17 x 17 inches Condition: Excellen...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Inkjet

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 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 darkroom. 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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