Polaroid Photography

'You are my Baby' (Till Death do us Part), 2005, 20x24cm, Edition 2/10, digital C-Print print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9377....

Angel View (Memories of Green) - 2003 Edition 2/5 , 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Artist...

Musing (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 24x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Invento...

Shadows (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' Cyndi Lauper record Album) - 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artists Proofs, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Cert...

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...

The Kiss (Sidewinder) - 2005 125x154cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on verso. Artist Inventory No. 3120.02. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. This piece ships in a crate. 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...

Calliope (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 50x50cm Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid Signature label and Certificate Not mounted That’s a compelli...

Blue Water Pistol (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999 Edition 3/10, 67x60cm each, 67x128cm installed. 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroids. Mounted on...

'Radha Pink' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 38x36cm, Edition of 30, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #6...

Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 128x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. (matte) Ar...

I am leaving! (Till Death do us Part) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...

Man walking in Distance (Zuma Beach) - 1999 43x59cm, Edition of 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back and Certificate. Artist Inve...

'Penelope and Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificat...

Blow my Mind (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...

Happiness (Suburbia) - 2004 28x37cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, Not mounted. Artist Inventory # 408. Suburbia Phot...

Fugitives (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 9377. Not...

Arrivederci (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Numbe...

Sleepy Head (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Numbe...

'Nude in Pink', (Strange Love) - 2010 48x47cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist based on the Polaroid, signature label and c...

Untitled (Paradise) - 1999, 20x20cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20452. ...

Fabien (The Last Picture Show) triptych - 2005, 30x30cm each, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the three original Polaroids. Certificate and sign...

Hans and Penelope (Immaculate Springs) - 1998 Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 58x185cm installed, 58x56cm each. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 3 ...

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 80x79cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

Judith (Suburbia) - 2004 50x60cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on verso with Certificate, Artist inventory number: 1698. Not mounted. Stefanie S...

Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature labe...

Tricks (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 43x59cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 9764 Not mounted...

Planet of the Apes X - 1999, Edition 1/10, 40x40cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted, Stefanie Schneider — The Alchemy of T...

'Hans and Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 - Edition of 10, 20x24cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certifi...

Duet (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 50x50cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 9441. Not mounted....

Planes IV - 2008 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4639. Not mounted. ...

Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 2007, 20x24cm, Edition 1/10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 8781. Not m...

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 Schne...

'Her last Call III' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Invento...

Jersey Views (Stay) - 2006 48x46cm, Edition of of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 5136. Not mounted. Stefa...

Daisy on Bed (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 - 125x154cm, Edition 3/3, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on an original Polaroid. Artist ...

Girls (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 40x40cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 9435. Not mounted...

Lost (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 50x50cm. Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 20375. Signature la...

Radha doing her Nails by the Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 126x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label,...

From Now On (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Art...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatur...

Skylark (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory...

'Untitled' (Cricket on the Nose Scene) from the 29 Palms, CA series, - 2009 80x80cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid Certificate and signature label, artist ...

The End (Sidewinder) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3447. ...

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) triptych - 2005, 20x20cm each, 20x70cm installed, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 Polaroids. Certifi...

Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 24x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #958...

Untitled (The Last Picture Show) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 21140. Signature ...

Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - 2004 58x56cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Cert...

Waiting (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature lab...

Balancing (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certif...

The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based o...

Dreamgirl II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory ...

Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) - 1999, 40x40cm, Edition 3/10. Archival C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label a...

The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, a...

'Hot Tub' (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 20x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, artist inventory number: 19715.01, unmounted. M...

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certifi...

Last Season - so I walked away from my valley (Wastelands), diptych - 2003 Edition of 3/5, 57x117cm installed 57x56each. analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 2...

'Renée's Dream' (Days of Heaven) - 2005 part of the 29 Palms, CA project 3 pieces 18x22cm each Edition 15/100. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Certificate ...

Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project. Edition of 10, 20x24cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certif...

Rendering Memories II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13388. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer. -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal. (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...

Untitled (Paradise) - 1999 20x20cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 361. Not...