Polaroid Photography

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1456. Not ...

A Vision you can't Capture #03 (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 50x61cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, artist Inv...

The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, a...

Many Fairytales (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007 Edition of 10, 20x20cm. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted, Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory...

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...

Waiting At The Bar - Still Life Black and White Photographic Print Framed Like many of Pia Clodi’s works, this black and white photograph evokes a human presence, even when one cann...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature ...

Henry and Athena - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006 featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate...

The Kiss - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006 featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Sig...

Kitten - 2017 50x50cm. Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-490. Not mounted. ...

Oxana and Hans (Stage of Consciousness), part 3 - 2007 41x52cm, Sold out Lumas Edition of 147, Artist Proof 3/3. Lambda Print, based on the original Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum...

3 Stefanie Schneider's Minis from the movie Stay: 'Forgive me', 'Lila', 'Jellyfish' signed in front, not mounted Lambda digital Color Photographs based on Stefanie Schneider expired ...

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....

Supercilious (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 38x36cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist inventory...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 898, not mounted “I never rememb...

Endless Summer (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x37cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1413....

'Untitled 10' (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 5, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted, Certificate and si...

This work is unique. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art...

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

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's ...

A Young Bride with a Strong Headache - 2020 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed on Fuji glossy paper, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative....

Strange Days (Wastelands) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Ar...

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. “I never remembe...

The Muse (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 38x37cm, Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the Artist, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on the Pol...

Star me Kitten - 2017, 50x50cm. Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL201...

Untitled 2019, 20x20cm, Edition of 1/10. Digital C-Print based a Polaroid Collage Mixed Media. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back with Certificate. Not mounted. Jos...

12121 Amboy Road (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10910. Not moun...

The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 2005 Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs. 48x46cm each, installed 155x151cm. 9 archival C-Prints, based on the 9 Polaroids. Certificate and Sig...

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 20x24m, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...

All Around the Rock Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm. Digital C-Print based on a on a 600 Polaroid. Signed on back and certificate. Not mounted. All around the Rock (Shot 2019 on SX70 f...

Polaroid, black and white 3.74 x 2.75 inches (9.5 x 7 cm) This artwork is offered by CLAMP, New York.

Four Sisters and a Brother - diptych - 2020 - 25x65cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based ...

Andy Warhol Unique Polaroid Photograph of Filpucci Fancy Yarn, Banal Objects becoming Pop Art

This is a unique photographic taken by Andy Warhol of one of this flower paintings. The work is initialed by the artist on the front side of the polaroid. Provenance: Gift of the a...

Gabriela at Eleven - 2019 40x48cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Baryta Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mou...

Burning Field (Last Picture Show) - 2004 sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2, 58x57cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Po...

3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - 1999 - triptych signed in front, not mounted. 3 Digital Color Photographs based on the 3 Polaroids. 10.7...

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Planes' - 2001 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photograph based on the Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 19...

Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004, 60x60cm, Edition 5/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Certificate and Signature label. Art...

Nida is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Baltic coastline of Lithuania. The image is part of a limited edition of 20, hand-signed and ...

Gil at Twelve - 2019 - 40x48cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed on Fuji glossy paper, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mounted). Sign...

Untitled (Olancha) - 2006 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 822. Not mo...

Abstract - 2020 Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1, 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame). Artist Inv. #23481. Signed on verso. Stefanie Schneider's ...

Once we were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 from the 29 Palms, CA project. 58x56cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaro...

OK Corral (Stranger than Paradise), triptych - 1999 - Edition 5/10, each 58 x 56 cm, together with gaps 58x185cm, 3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Ar...

Village Motel Sunset (The Last Picture Show) 2005 58x56cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, base...

Springtime (Paris) - 1995 Edition of 5, 50x60cm including white borders. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist and based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. A...

Fountain Head (Stay) - 2006 featuring Ryan Gosling 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5250 No...

Untitled (The Last Picture Show), 2005 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original SX-70 Polaroid. Inventory No. 781.02. 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 dark room. 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...

Lerici '25 is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Ligurian coastline of Italy. The image is part of a limited edition of 20, hand-signed ...

Mountain Range (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition 2/5, 55x72cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Artist inventory Num...

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's...

Gasoline III (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition 10, 120x120cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Not mounted, Certificate and Signature label...

Drowning the Noise - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory - PL202...

Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007 Edition 2/5, each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm. 4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids. Ce...

Unknown Girl 01 - Street Portraits (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 40x40cm. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Invento...

Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Lambda Print based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory 21327B. Signature labe...

Radha Leopard Dress II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artis...

Dreamer (Zuma Beach) - 2004 78x76cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #2746. Not m...

Nastasia with Gun (High Desert) - 2019 Edition 1/10, 50x50cm, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: A German...