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Stefanie Schneider
Male Nude from the 29 Palms, CA series - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
1999

Name: Male Nude from the 29 Palms, CA series - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
Brand: Stefanie Schneider
Price: 600.51 AUD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (37 reviews)

$380

£291.94

€335.44

CA$534.52

A$600.51

CHF 313.77

MX$7,329.46

NOK 3,983.90

SEK 3,750.01

DKK 2,503.15

About the Item

Male Nude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition 4/10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 293. Not mounted THE GREATER THE EMPTINESS, THE GRANDER THE ART — Stefan Gronert If Ed Ruscha gave us Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, Stefanie Schneider gave us 29 Palms, CA — not cold service stations but hot-blooded longing at the end of the road. Where his tanks were full of fuel, hers are empty, ghostly. Not emptiness as lack, but as vastness. Her America isn't a destination; it's a mirage humming with the aftertaste of sunstroke, broken hearts, and lavender dusk. Schneider doesn't photograph the West — she dreams it into being. In her world, time halts mid-sigh. Radha stares down at chipped pink fingernails. Max wears desert-colored overalls like battle armor. Motel rooms and desert roads flicker between memory and fiction, caught in the golden wound of expired Polaroid emulsion. She doesn’t document; she conjures. Her images bleed, literally — color melting like sugar, chemicals whispering stories never written. Her work is proof that deterioration isn’t death — it’s revelation. And yes, she broke the rules of photography, or maybe she never learned them. There are no decisive moments here, only moments that refuse to decide. Instead of digital precision, she offers analog decay, visual drift, and emotional aftermath. The mistakes? Intentional. The unpredictability? Engineered. She’s the chemist of heartbreak, the desert’s director. Cindy Sherman might nod in recognition, but where Sherman stages history, Schneider lets it unravel. Her influence on the Polaroid medium is nothing short of resurrection. When the world moved on to cleaner pixels, she lingered in the rot — and found gold. She didn’t just use expired Polaroid film; she became its oracle. In her hands, each image feels like a memory you never had but ache for anyway. She gave instant film its slow poetry. There is no plot, only heat. No climax, only drift. Her characters — often Stefanie herself, Radha, Max, lovers, loners — are caught between takes, lost in their own half-written scripts. Her works are not photographs. They are cinematic stills from films that don’t exist. That can’t exist. Because life doesn’t come with a storyline either. In Stefanie Schneider’s universe, every frame is a pause — not in time, but in belief. The viewer becomes the storyteller, the detective, the dreamer. And when the story collapses (as it always must), all that’s left is light. Faded, flawed, unforgiving, infinite. So what remains after 29 Palms? A new gospel of beauty. One where dust is divine. Where art comes not from fullness but from fracture. One where, in the ghost-town silence of the American dream, Stefanie Schneider holds up a mirror — cracked, sun-drenched, and impossibly tender.

Creator:

Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)

Creation Year:

1999

Dimensions:

Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)

Medium:

Photographic Paper,Polaroid,C Print,Archival Paper

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

1990-1999

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Morongo Valley, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU652316376442

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