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Stefanie Schneider150, 000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover)2007
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150,000 Dollars (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 Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 7250.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider’s work captures the American West not as it is, but as it exists in the mind’s eye: dreamlike, deteriorating, and full of longing. Shooting with expired Polaroid film in the deserts of Southern California, she transforms familiar iconography—motel signs, empty highways, drifting figures—into haunting reveries of love, loss, and faded utopias. Her images echo Ed Ruscha’s Americana, Georgia O’Keeffe’s desert reverence, and Edward Hopper’s loneliness, yet remain unmistakably her own.
Born in Germany in 1968, Schneider grew up amid the fractured landscapes of a divided nation—an early encounter with historical rupture that fuels her fascination with the abandoned edges of the American dream. Her process, from photographing on location to enlarging the film by hand in Berlin, embraces imperfection as a language: chemical distortions become metaphors for memory’s fragility.
At a time when Polaroid was vanishing from the photographic lexicon, Schneider became one of its fiercest advocates—resurrecting it not as a tool of nostalgia, but as a medium uniquely suited to capturing moments in the act of disappearing. Her visual style is so distinct that it’s instantly recognizable: a Stefanie Schneider image doesn’t just depict a place—it feels like a memory of it.
As she told Artnet in 2014:
“My work resembles my life: Love, lost and unrequited, leaves its mark in our lives as a senseless pain that has no place in the present.”
Schneider’s photographs are elegies to possibility, to what might have been. In preserving what fades, she has become one of the most essential voices in visualizing both the promise—and the unraveling—of the American West.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2007
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316186432
Stefanie Schneider
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., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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