Portrait Landscape Photography

'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider (Oilfields) 2004, 60x60cm, Edition of 10, Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 1215.05 Not mo...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Saigon (Stranger than Paradise), 2003 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between Ple...

Inside the Trailer (Sidewinder), 2005, Edition 1/5, 4 pieces, each 48x47cm, installed with gaps 48x207cm installed including 5cm gaps. Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, ...

Untitled (Cowboys and Angels) - 2005 75x100cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory N...

Leaving Town (Sidewinder) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 346...

Alter Ego, 2017, Edition 2/7 Based on an original Impossible film Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2...

'Sardinian Holiday' by Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print limited to 150 only numbered in ink & emboss stamped. 40 x 30 " inches paper size Selvaggia Borromeo enjoys a ya...

Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 125x154cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, artist inventory numbe...

Doctor Adanuty, graduated from the University of Magic is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.  Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and n...

Indian Summer II (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on a Polaroid, signature label and certificate, Artist Inventory 878.11. Not mounted Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. 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” now Polaroid) 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, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)  2012
 Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S) Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S) Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, and others. MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) with Kourtney Roy and Eric Weeks Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog) Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog) Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May 2012 Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) 

2011 
Kunst zu verlosen !  // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist...

The Farmer and his Wife (American Depression) - 2004 48 x 46 cm, Edition of 10 plus two artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. A...

Desert Fire, 2019 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory - PL2019-...

Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999, 50x50cm, Edition of 25, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #834. Not mounted. Berlin based artist Stefanie Schneider enlarges expired Polaroid stock into burned-out C-prints. The lossy images almost completely dissolve into lurid color abstractions. The shiny pink of a sex kitten's glittery body suit becomes an electrified, free-floating color field. The vivid, flame-orange hair of a 70's sexploitation film star vibrates against the dusty gray of the sky above an LA desert. Skin tones and facial details in the figures are completely lost. They are refugees from Faster Pussycat...

Holding on Tight (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2016 Edition of 10, 100x120cm, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Artist inventory 19522. Not mounted. Signature labe...

'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 2/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 2447.02 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: 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 star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.

 
Stay Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
 The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...

Crow Burial II (Sidewinder) 20 x 20 cm, 2005, Edition 4/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 3505.04, not mounted Stefanie Schneider...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Gasoline I (Stranger than Paradise), 1999 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between...

The awkward Age 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Medium format Negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.

'Renée's Dream' no. 6 (Days of Heaven) - 2005 18 x 24 cm, Lumas Edition 99/100. Archival C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid Artist inventory 8085. Signature Label and certificat...

Abaco Islander Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Gasoline I (Stranger than Paradise), 1999 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between...

'Untitled' (Oilfields) 2004, - diptych. Edition of 10, plus 2 artist Proofs. 20x20cm each, installed with gaps 20x43cm, 2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 expired Polaroids. Signat...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Available (Oxana's 30th Birthday), 2008 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between P...

Jordan (Wastelands) Edition 2/5, 57x56cm, 2003 Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1176.02. Signed...

Queen Elizabeth II is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments...

They are always there, it has always been that way (Dude Ranch) - 2022 Nephew - triptych 17.78 x 50.8cm Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-P...

The photographers note regarding this work is "A girl taking water from a well at Allenstein in East Prussia, Germany 1930s" This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnem...

The photographers note regarding this work is "Perfect customer service at the petrol station, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle William T...

Zoë (Paris) - 1995 Edition of 5, 60x50cm including white borders. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist and based on a Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist In...

Wind Swept (Wastelands), diptych - 2003 Edition of 5, 38x82cm installed, 38x37cm each. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish. bas...

Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, August 1969 Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped C...

Jack and Jill II (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) Edition 3/10, 20x24cm, 2016, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory 20014.03 no...

'Untitled' (Oilfields) 2004, 128x126cm each, installed with gaps 125x260cm, Edition 2/3, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, signed on verso, artist ...

"Old Fashioned Model" by Terry Fincher November 1966: British fashion model Twiggy (Lesley Hornby) wearing 1920’s style fashions. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Express) Dame Leslie Lawson DBE (née Hornby; born 19 September...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Available (Oxana's 30th Birthday), 2008 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between P...

"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency Teddy the Dog holds onto child actor Jackie Lucas (1919 - 1983) by the tail of his golfing jacket as he tries to play a ball, which is floating in a river. A publicity still for the unreleased Mack Sennett comedy short, 'Rough and Ready', directed by William Campbell...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Long Way Home (Stranger than Paradise), 1999 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in betw...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis Long Way Home II, 2005 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between Plexiglass (thickn...

Wandering - switched off - (Wastelands), Edition 4/5, 57x56cm, 2003, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory...

Untitled (Into the Sun) - 2001 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1328. N...

Untitled (Into the Sun) - 2001 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1308. N...

Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Runaway' (Haley and the Birds) 2013 signed and signature brand on verso Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid Polaroid sized open Editions...

The Farmer and his Wife (American Depression) - 2004 20 x 20 cm, Edition of 10 plus two artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...

American actress Lanita Kent takes to the dance floor at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Boogie Dancer 1968 C-...

Dreaming in Reverse Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...

I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...

Rite of Passage I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might addr...

Vintage Photograph of a Painting     is a black and white vintage photo realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good condition. The artwork belongs to a series o...

Katharine Hepburn American film star Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. Slim Aaron...

The Prodigy - signed Limited Edition Print Collage Boston June 2 1997 NME Cover Shoot (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered b...

Newport Tennis Week 1953 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: A view from the umbrella boxes towards the t...

Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. Slim Aarons Francine Brandt Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping t...

American financier and art collector J. Patrick Lannan and Marcia Pressman enjoy a dance together at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, Apr...

Untitled (Zuma Beach) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 111.04. ...

Four Buddhist nuns in traditional dress outside a school near Inle Lake, in the Taunggyi District of Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), May 1971. Gorgeous print measuring 24 x 20" inches...

Julio Iglesias is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the  1970s. Good conditions.

Old Days - is a  vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century . The artwork is a well-balanced composition.

Vintage Photo. The Actors Rock Hudson and Doris Day in 1960. Good condition.