Polaroid Photography

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...

Starburst - 2022 40x50cm. 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 labe...

Tranquility - 2019, 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist in...

29 Dreams (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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Waiting (The Princess and her Lover) - 2009 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

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...

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...

Tricksy (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...

Across (Strange Love) - 2005 50x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 6145. N...

'Paperback Writer' (Bombay Beach) 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 ...

Morning Glory (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 label. Ar...

Madonna - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #335 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider's scint...

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...

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 ...

Fly me to the Moon (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 38x47cm, Edition 1/5. Vintage analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Cert...

Sorry for the reflection on the plexi. In the early 1980s, the Polaroid Foundation invited Hungarian-born painter and photographer György Kepes (1906-2001) to use the 20x24 Polaroid ...

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 ...

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....

Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...

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...

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

Running rings around the moon (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 50x60cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19563...

Forgotten Pool (2015), 50 x 50 cm, Edition 1/5. Archival Print on Canson Baryta Fiber Rag 310gr, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted). Signed on back with Certificate. C...

Little Darlings (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inv...

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Forgive me' - 2006 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Edition...

Loving You II (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 48x38cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Ar...

Cherry Tree Blossoms (Till Death do us Part), diptych - 2006, 20x20cm each, installed 20x45, Edition 10/10. 2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids. Certificate and Signatur...

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...

Boy with Flowers - 2019 70x57cm, Edition 2/5. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Peel Apart Instant Film (not mounted). Signed on back with Certificate. ...

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...

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 ...

'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...

Miss America (Sidewinder) - 2005 100x98cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on a Polaroid. Certi...

Joshua Tree National Park (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label....

By the Pond (2014)
 - as a forest fairy is the beginning of a story that evokes the enigma and the dreamy world of childhood. 25x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Giclée ...

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu - triptych - 2001, 20x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signatur...

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 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...

Roys (Amboy), 2018, 20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist Inventory Number PL201...

Lucia at Fourteen (2018) 40x51 cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted) Once / Cristina Fonts...

Stefanie Schneider's Mini Saigon (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2023...

Puppy Love (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 30x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...

Gaelle With Broken Arm - 2021 70 x 57 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Hahnemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on the original reclaimed Fuji Instant F...

Four Unique Andy Warhol Polaroid Photographs of Christmas Holiday Poinsettias, Banal Objects becoming Pop Art

Forest White (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 125x128cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Signature lab...

Little Red Ant (2016), Edition 1/7. 30 x 38 cm. Printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 310gr, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted). Signed on back with Certificate. Once / Cris...

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...

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...

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...

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 20x24cm each, 20x80cm installed. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Signature label and certificate. Artist I...

Gabriela at Seven (2015) 25x25 cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted) Bombay Beach Biennale ...

Homeward Bound, 2017, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proof Based on an original Instant Film Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017...

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....

Oasis II (Sidewinder) - 2005 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #300...

India in Blue (2018)
 48x40 cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted). About myself I was born...