Polaroid Photography

Blue II (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 40x50cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 3963. Signature label...

'Sitting Bull II' (Immaculate Springs) - 1998 Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 50x50cm, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature Label and Certif...

Hallway I (Suburbia) 2004, 40x40cm, Edition of 2/5, analog C-Print based, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, Based on a Polaroid. Signature label with Certif...

Ticket Booth (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 Edition 1/5, 15x30cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on th...

'Jane's Place' 29 Palms, CA, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, 70x80cm Mounted on Aluminum, hand-printed by the artist, enlarged from a Polaroid. THE GRE...

'North Shore Yacht Club I' - Salton Sea (California Badlands) - 1998 50x60cm with white border, Image size: 48x46cm, Edition 2/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 585.02, Not mounted. The artist Stefanie Schneider has produced a unique body of work because she was the first to utilize expired Polaroid instant photography. Embracing the ‘imperfections’ this medium can produce Stefanie’s artwork was the inspiration of Instagram and the catalyst that motivated Dr. Florian Kaps to rescue the sole remaining Polaroid film production factory in Holland. Saving the last production equipment just before their planned destruction, therefore saving millions of vintage Polaroid cameras from obsolescence. Hows that for an artist having an effect on her medium of choice! The ‘Impossible film project’ saved the production factory and then a Polish business man bought ‘Impossible film’ and the actual Polaroid company to bring the two back together resulting in the so called ‘Polaroid Originals’ and giving it to his millennial son. (I hear he might also get Fuji film company for Christmas) Stefanie Schneider purchases Polaroid instant film and uses it only at it’s best possible outcome for her planned film shoots. The location, sets, costumes, actors and stories all come from Schneider but that’s just the beginning. The stories and their production take place in the high desert near Joshua Tree in California but the post production is in Berlin, Germany. The chosen photographs are rephotographed to make a negative. Following with the analogue medium, Schneider enlarges and prints old school in a self designed and built analogue darkroom in an old factory studio in Berlin. The largest of her hand printed art works measure 125cm or 49 inches in width with her vintage ‘Colenta’ developing machine. Schneider designed and built her own enlarger to properly fit her concept with the biggest ‘Durst’ enlarger ever built and turned on it’s side so as to print even bigger than was possible in it’s original design and rolls on custom tracks. Schneider created a film production movie set for her biggest film concepts from all her proceeds on an organic (off grid) farm in California where she eats only what she grows. Complete with garden, greenhouse and chicken coop. (It’s also a sanctuary for animals as no meat consumption is permitted) Vintage travel trailers dot the farm where production ideas develop. a costume trailer, film storage in the vintage refrigerators...

Mountain Ridge (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition 1/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 535.01. Not mounted....

Forgotten Land (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10907. Not mounted....

House (The Desert in Sepia) - 2019 Where once there was water there is no more, the Oasis is gone. 20x24cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaro...

Chruch (The Desert in Sepia) - 2019 Where once there was water there is no more, the Oasis is gone. 20x24cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted. Erin Dougherty...

Yucca (The Desert in Sepia) - 2019 Where once there was water there is no more, the Oasis is gone. 20x20cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaro...

Edge of the Sea, 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on an original Polaroid, Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2016-...

'Magic Mountain' (California Badlands), 2016, 24x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 19398.08, not mounte...

James (Ghost Town) - 2020 Sketches of a downtown disappearing. 40x40cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Digital silver gelatin print based on a Polar...

Bewitched - 2020 Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-962. Not mounted. Kir...

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory N...

Courtyard (Suburbia) - 2004, 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory No. 432. Not mounted. This proje...

Traces of Tears (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record shoot in 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label...

'The road ahead', 2020 20x24cm, 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 - PL...

Desert Visions, 2020 20x24cm, 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 - PL20...

Untitled (Saigon) - 2003 Edition 2/5, 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, on matte Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. based on an expired Polaroid. Artist inventory Num...

'Small Town Love' (Last Picture Show), 2006, 20x20cm, Edition 3/10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No 1029.15, not mounted ...

Stefanie on bed looking quite dead (29 Palms, CA) - 1998 130x130cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the Artist, based on a Polaroid. Signed on back with Certificate, ...

Places of Uncertainty (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...

'Preppers' (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 50x60cm, Edition 2/10, Lambda Print based on a Polaroid Certificate and signature label artist inventory number: 19678.02 Not mounted. Stefanie ...

Traces (Stranger than Paradise), diptych - 2005 128x126each, 128x260cm installed, Edition of 3. 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, base...

Untitled - 2017 30x30cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based a Polaroid Collage. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on t...

A love song (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, (ask about a larger sized edition) Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, ba...

Penny Lane and Dreamgirl (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x24cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory 19139. Signature label and Cer...

Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 - 20x24cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory 19141. Signature label and Certificate. N...

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. 20455. No...

'Marilyn aka Jane Bond' (part 3) (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 20x20cm, Edition 8/10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory numbe...

Untitled (Venice) - 1999 48x56cm, Edition 4/5, Analog C-Print, enlarged and hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish. Based on a Polaroid. Artist in...

'Santa Monica', 2017, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proof Based on a Polaroid, digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-197 Kirsten...

Stairway (Suburbia) 2004, 50x50cm, Edition of 1/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20964.01. This projec...

While you were sleeping 2019, 20x20 cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist invento...

Dugong IV (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence 2006, 31x39cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, based on a Polaroid. Certificat...

General Store (29 Palms, CA), 2007, 38x49cm, Edition 4/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based ...

Owen's Valley (Last Picture Show), 20 x 20 cm, 2001 Edition 5/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 1088.05, 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. “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...

Origins, 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on an original Polaroid, Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-366 Kir...

On the Road to Nowhere - 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Archival C-print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2...

Self Service - 2017, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-print, based on an original Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certi...

Untitled (Oilfields), 2004, 60x60cm, Edition 3/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 1213.03 unmou...

'Solitaire' (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 50x50cm, Edition 3/10, Lambda Print based on a Polaroid Certificate and signature label artist inventory number: 19594.03 unmounted The second im...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004, 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist...

The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 50x60cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, art...

Girl at Fence (Last Picture Show) - 2005 58x56cm, Edition 1/5, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Artist inventory number:...

In Bloom - 2022 20x25cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Signature label...

Falling Stars - 2022 50x40cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Signature ...

Self Portrait (Strange Love) - 2005 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 6153....

Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005 Edition of 5, 156x125cm. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3094. Not mounted. "pr...

Untitled (Olancha) - 2006 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist I...

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

Day Worker (American Depression) - 1999 Original Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1. 10.7 x 8.7 cm. Artist inventory 20663.00. Signed on back. Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situa...

Self Portrait (Strange Love) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 6138...

Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist...

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 Sc...

Sinaloa (Ghosts of Route 99) - 2021 Route 99 used to cut right through Bakersfield. The streets were filled with Motels for the weary traveler. In the 1970s the highway was moved, ...

Star Liter (Ghosts of Route 99) - 2021 Route 99 used to cut right through Bakersfield. The streets were filled with Motels for the weary traveler. In the 1970s the highway was move...

Welcome Trailer Court (Ghosts of Route 99) - 2021 Route 99 used to cut right through Bakersfield. The streets were filled with Motels for the weary traveler. In the 1970s the highw...