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Period: Early 2000s
Cypress Trees, Avenue, Tuscany, black and white fine art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Beautiful curved road with cypresses along the way in Tuscany, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled 03 (Saigon) - analog, 58x56cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 03 (Saigon) - 2003
58x56cm,
Edition of 5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by an artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Artist invento...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA, black and white, fine art, landscape, photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Antelope Canyon sandstone formation detail, Page, Arizona, USA. Archival pigment ink print as part of a...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy, black and white photography, fine art, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eskimo Girl, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Images size 55 x 70 cm
Limited Edition of 12
Platinum Print
Framed with Wengé and Passepartout
Framed Size 92 x 112 cm
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange's work celebr...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Platinum
Krimmler Ache Study 1
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Motel Entrance II, Salton Sea, California - Mid-Century Architecture Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Motel Entrance II, photograph from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series.
Classic mid-century architecture in this artwork from the Salton Sea California. Rich blues, palm trees with pops ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Oil Fields #27, Bakersfield, California
Located in New York, NY
Oil Fields #27, Bakersfield, California
2004
Signed and numbered, verso
Chromogenic print (Edition of 100)
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
This work is of...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
[Untitled]
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
[Untitled]
2002
Ektacolor Professional print taken with Wide Lux camera
Unsigned
AP 1/5, apart from an edition of 9
20” x 24”
Chamberlain began to explore photog...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
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Laps
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Luke Smalley was an American artist known for his photographic work, which pairs a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia. Images from his early in his career were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks c. 1910. This is not surprising since Smalley graduated with a degree in sports medicine from Pepperdine University and worked for a number of years as a model and personal trainer. Smalley shot the bulk of his photographs in his home state of Pennsylvania, using real high school athletes as models.
“Exercise at Home” is Luke Smalley’s second major body of work. Shot in and around the tiny Pennsylvania town the artist called home, Smalley revisits themes of adolescent growing pains acted out under the guise of earnest athleticism. Teenagers engage in simple yet strange competitions meant to establish their standings amongst one another. Two youths practice boating safety...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
$2,500
Stardust, Las Vegas - Vintage Vegas Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This cool picture has a classic Americana feel. Richard Heeps pictures beautifully capture parts of Las Vegas which are no longer there. This iconic 'Stardust' sign presented here al...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Stefanie Schneider Minis - The Party's over -based on a Polaroid, Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Party's over (Oxana's 30th Birthday), 2008
featuring Radha Mitchell
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polar...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Buick in the Dust II, Hemsby, Norfolk - Color Photography of a Car
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Buick in the Dust II', features an American Car, on a British Beach (Hemsby, Norfolk) driven by a German. Richard spent years honing his skills as a drag racing photographer, a spor...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Milkshakes, Welkom, the Free State - Pop Art Colour Food Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
The seductive blue sky and the seductive milkshakes make you feel as if you are sitting in the car at this "Americana style" Roadhouse in Welkom, South Africa. It is typical of Richa...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999,
20x20cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 18420.
No...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Roli. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from t...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
A Pair of origin Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Realist Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Diving Platform Seawater Swimming Pool minimalist seascape limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Diving Platform Study 2, France - no. 11880
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnem...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
150, 000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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 Ce...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Figurative photo art print, Contemporary Portrait , Black White - Caroline 2
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Caroline 2 ‘
An original signed archi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Vendedores de pájaros Feb, Diptych. From the Series Guerreros. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vendedores de pájaros Feb, 2000 Diptych
From the Series Guerreros
Overall sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 39 in. W
Individual sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
Signed, titled a...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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.
"...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Zzyzx Resort Pool, Soda Dry Lake, California - American Landscape Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, he was set a challenge to find something interesting on the road from LA to Las Vegas. In the heart of the Mojave Desert, Richard foun...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Carlos. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Carlos, 2001 by Celso José Castro Daza
From The series Buscando Mamá
One of a kind photo collage
Sheet Size: 39.5 in. H x 27.5 in. W
2001
Unframed
The root of these unique photograp...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
20x65cm including the white frame.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid.
C...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Real Coco de Mer by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Nude, woman, muse
Located in München, BY
Real Coco de Mer
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
JJK shows his perfect play with light and shadow in this intimate photograph.
The shape of the body reminds us of th...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marion-Signed limited edition nude print, Contemporary Black white photo, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Marion - Signed limited edition archival pigment print , France, 2003 - Edition of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
Untitled 134 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 134 (Abstract Photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
Last Frame (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Frame (29 palms, CA) - 2008
48x47cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #4655. ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mist- Nude print, Black white photo, Large Contemporary, Model Woman
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Mist - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5
Contact me if you are interested in another photograph of my store, we can always discuss
This is an Archival Pi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Phot...
Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art 2007:
Off-set print on vinyl record.
12 x 12 inches.
Excellent Condition.
Published by Visionaire Fashion from a limited ed...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Plastic, Offset
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #958...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Torso- Signed limited edition semi nude print, Black white, Square sensual photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Torso ‘ who was captured on film in 19...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...
Entre dos Iconos. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Entre dos Iconos, 2001 by Celso José Castro Daza
From The series Buscando Mamá
One of a kind photo collage
Sheet Size: 39.5 in. H x 27.5 in. W
Signed, titled and dated by the artist...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
American Cowboy Head, Salton Sea, California - Roadside America Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant Cowboy "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Aubrey O'Day nude
Located in Austin, TX
Aubrey O'Day by Markus Klinko, from a stunning collection of contemporary nudes from celebrated photographer, Markus Klinko, featuring amongst others, Dita Von Teese and Stoya
This ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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 Inventory...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The End of Love (29 Palms, CA) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The End of Love - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 -
Edition 1/10 ,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 4898.13.
Sign...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lorenzo 1, 3 and 4 Triptych. From the Series Guerreros. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lorenzo 1, 3 and 4 Triptych by Celso José Castro Daza
From the Series Guerreros.
Photography photo collage intervened by the artist with bland ink mounted on archival paper.
Overall ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Salome (Limited Edition of 25) - Nude Photography
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph features a beautiful red-haired woman, titled Salome (a temptress who lures men away from salvation). The photograph is from John Stoddart’s, “Risqué” series, wh...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20 cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature Label
Artist Inventory No. 481
N...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Village - heated Pool (The Last Picture Show), analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Village Motel - Heated Pool (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
58x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Chrystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Metal
Fog (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, analog, landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fog (The Last Picture Show) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sun Lounger, Palm Springs, California - Swimming Pool Blue Water Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Sun Lounger, photograph from Richard Heeps, 'Dream in Colour' series.
This cooling Palm Springs, California artwork is the perfect way to bring summer vibes into your home all year ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Fighting back the Darkness (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fighting back the Darkness (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition 9/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 9...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Burlesque Series, Catherine D'Lish in Champagne Coupe II Tease-O-Rama, Hollywood
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque Photography after he spent 2003 capturing performances in Britain & America. He spent a lot on time with his subjects on a number of...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Jhonny. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from t...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
Joshua Tree Portrait Mojave Desert California Landscape Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Joshua Tree American Desert photograph from Richard Heeps' series, Dream in Colour. The iconic Joshua Tree stands proudly silhouette against the magical rich layered hues of the dese...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Cypress Hill, Tuscany, landscape, outdoors, nature, limited edtion photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - analog, mounted, Installation
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part) - Installation - 2008
Edition of 5.
16 analog C-Prints , hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on 13 Polaroids, ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Metal
So Still (Sidewinder) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
So Still (Sidewinder) - 2005
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20cm,
Edit...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rue de Temple #1
By Iris Brosch
Located in München, BY
Edition of 25
3 nude and beautiful girls sitting on a chaiselongue in a historical french builing.
The artist, photographer and director Iris Brosch, living between New York and P...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, analog, landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Madonna - signed Limited Edition print (2005)
Located in London, GB
Madonna - signed Limited Edition print
Press Commission
July 2, 2005
London Hyde Park
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Rolando. From The series Buscando Papá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rolando, 2001 by Celso José Castro Daza
From The series Buscando Papá
One of a kind photo collage
Sheet size: 39.5 in. H x 27.5 in. W
Unframed
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Algiers Pool, Las Vegas, Nevada - Blue water color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, with some seriously cool colours and pool vibes.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Nature's First Green is Gold: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Green Plants
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of green plants and flowers with gold lights and fireworks
Archival digital print, made to order
48 x 40 inches, edition of 15...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
Untitled (Delayed Cares)
By Joshua Lutz
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print (Edition of 10)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
30 x 35.5 inches, sheet
22 x 27 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Ple...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
C Print
Coconuts, Framed Black and White Nature Photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coconuts by Iran Issa-Khan
Black and white archival pigment print
Image size: 19 in. H x 23 in. W
Frame size: 36 in. H x 40 in. W
Dated and signed by the artist.
2000
Born in Tehran and raised in Europe and the United States, Iran, Issa-Khan began her photography career in the late 1970s studying with William Minor, Jr. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Issa-Khan photographed Paulina Porizkova...
Category
Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 894.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up.
That’s when the shooting started…
Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila.
Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty.
She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy.
That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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The photo shoot for an ill-fated British 'Vogue' cover brought the two British icons together.
Marianne Faithfull in Photos
The late ’60s it girl was beloved for her personal style as well as her artistic talents.
This Week-Old Calf Named Bug Is One of Randal Ford’s Most Adorable Models
In a recent collection of animal portraits, he brings fashion photography to the farm.
Elton John Is a Fan of this Richard Caldicott Tupperware Photo
Using a creative analog process, the British artist transformed the plastic containers into gleaming, minimalist abstractions and developed an illustrious fan base along the way.
Some of the Best Beatles Photos Were Taken by Paul McCartney
A trove of recently unearthed personal photos adds another dimension to the abundance of press images of the Fab Four.
Photographer to Know: Rinko Kawauchi
From toddlers playing to fires blazing, the Japanese lenswoman poetically captures fleeting dramas on planet Earth.
Photographer Jerry Schatzberg Remembers a Legendary Shoot with Bob Dylan
The acclaimed lensman and the folk-rock phenomenon clicked, and a captivating portrait followed.