Polaroid Photography

Last Tango (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature...

'Love Scene against the Wall" (Sidewinder) - 2007, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 x 20x20cm, 20 x 100 cm installed with gaps in between each piec...

I see you, 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on the Polaroid Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-114 This p...

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...

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

Fifty Shades - 2017, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-333. Not mounted...

Life and how to live it, 2016 Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Digital C-print, Based on Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2016-791...

Sonnet - 2022 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2022-2029. Not mo...

'Untitled' Oilfields) - 2004, 60x60cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1212.04. Not mounted. ...

'Girls' (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. 9361.08 Not mount...

Matter of Time (Bombay Beach) - 2024 48x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory P...

Whisky and Water (Sidewinder) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory 3292....

In Other Words (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...

image size: 8 x 10 inches Standing Young Nude Man Polaroid Transfer on 22 x 15 inch Rives BFK paper, unframed signed SM Beard in pencil on bottom left corner. ed. 1/6 This is one i...

Color me Weird part of the series 'The crazy Adventures of David C.', - 2019, 20x95cm installed, 20x20cm each, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 archival C-Prints based on th...

A Million Dead End Streets (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x40cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...

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 the Polaroid. Signatu...

For your Eyes only 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 inventory PL...

Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004 50x50cm, Edition of 10, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1222. Not mounted. OILFIELDS, 2004 ...

Boat to Nowhere - 2019 20x20 cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist invento...

Save me - 2020 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-909. Not moun...

Fairytales (dyptych) - 2006 Edition of 30, 38x36cm each, 38x85cm installed, including gaps. 2 Archival Prints based on 2 Polaroids. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inv...

Even with my eyes closed - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL20...

Whisky and Water VI (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005 24x20cm each, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Polaroids. Signature label and certif...

Sprawl - 2020 37x50cm, 
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-874. Not ...

Marrying an Apple Tree (Negative) - 2020 60x50cm, Edition of 10. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta (glossy), based on a Peel Apart Polaroid Film (not mounted). Signed on...

Playgirl (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 50x50cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19598. Not mounted. ...

Maya - 2018, 60x48cm, 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 PL2018-445 K...

Ellen VON UNWERTH (*1954, Germany) Ellen’s angel I, Miami, 1993 Unique Polaroid Image 7.5 x 9.5 cm (3 x 3 3/4 in.) Sheet 8.6 x 10.7 cm (3 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.) Frame 29 x 24.5 x 4 cm (11 ...

Those were the Days - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-8...

Fanari II (2018) Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm Digital C-Print based on a on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on back and certificate. Artist: This was shot on a lighthouse of the Dor...

Fade Out - 2021 - 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1056. No...

Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 50x60cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 2823. Signature lab...

Trickle (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist In...

The great escape - 2021 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1065. ...

Tug of War - 2021 - 40x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid, Signature label with certificate. A Artist inventory PL2021-10...

Flat - 2020 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-964. Not mount...

Scorpion (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998 43x59cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/3. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and C...

Dust - 2021 50x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1085. Not moun...

The Visit, 2018, Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm - Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on back and certificate. Clare's work is presented in...

Heartbeats - 2021 - 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1054. Not m...

All that glitters ain't gold, 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proof Based on a Polaroid, digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL201...

Actor Girl II (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....

Nymph - 2021 - 20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1059. Not mounted...

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...

Algebra - 2021 - 25x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1018. Not mou...

Hindsigh - 2021 - 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1...

'Figure study in black and white II' 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist invento...

More of This (Bombay Beach) - 2024 48x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL2...

By the Pool (2015), Edition of 10. 50 x 50 cm. Archival Print on Canson Barita Fiber Rag 310gr, based on an analog Photograph (not mounted). Signed on back with Certificate. Crist...

Weekending - Polaroid - Unique piece - 2020 Original Polaroid - Unique Piece, signed and titled on back. 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame)...

Marcella and me - 2021 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist invento...

Anyway the Wind Blows - 2017 25x19cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2...

Nymph - 2021 - 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1059. Not mounted...

Welcome to Alcatraz (San Francisco) - 2023 40x40cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted. The City San Francisco has always been a special place to me. I am overcome with romantic notions thinking about it. Some real, some imagined. Walking down to Market street feeling my heart skip a beat To see someone who looks like you, I guess that I'm not through Dreaming of the one I love, you know what I'm dreaming of San Francisco days, San Francisco nights San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak...

Sign of the Times - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2019-7...

Wrapped 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 inventory PL2019-804. ...

Aliens - triptych - 1998 Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 48x59cm each, 48x190 installed including the gaps. analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive P...

Skin and Bones I - 2018, 50x50cm, 
 Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018...

High Hopes - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-895. No...