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Portrait Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Michel Comte
Oxana (29 Palms, CA) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, 21st Century, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oxana (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
75x93cm, Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
matte surface, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Beloved (Stage of Consciousness)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Beloved (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
65x80cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
24x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Posing II (Wastelands) - Polaroid, Expired. Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Posing II (Wastelands), 2003
Edition of 10,
38x37cm,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No 117...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I feel so alone! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I feel so alone! (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No.8658
Not mount...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Max by the Pool' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Max by the Pool' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photograph based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Edi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Fairytales - diptych, 128x125cm each - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fairytales (diptych) - 2006,
Edition of 2/5,
128x125cm each, 128x270cm installed, including gaps,
2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 2 Polaroids.
Mounted o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
1 Stefanie Schneider's Mini 'Self Portrait' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Self Portrait' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2016
10.7 x 8...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Time stands still (Chicks and Chicks & sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Time stands still (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x50cm, Edition of 2/10.
Archival C-Print, mounted under matte Plexi, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on verso with C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Making out in Car - Long Shot (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Making out in Car' - Long Shot (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 1/2.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dreamgirl I (29 Palms, CA) - analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamgirl II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 2/10,
58x56cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Signe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
50x48cm each, 50x102cm together with gap.
2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids....
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Fountain Head - Stay, starring Ryan Gosling / expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fountain Head (Stay), starring Ryan Gosling 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Her last Call (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Her last Call II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 16495.
Not mounted.
Featuring Heather Megan Christie.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in a vintage Spartan travel trailer.
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom despite the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed
photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10-acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
When would forever be a good time? (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When would forever be a good time? (Till Death do us Part)
2007, 20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Invent...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gestures - 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait, Contemporary, Self Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gestures (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
12 pieces, 48x46 cm each,
Edition of 5
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist,
Not mounted.
based on 12 Polaroids, Artist inventory 6...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled (Beachshoot) - with Radha Mitchell, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
128x125cm,
Edition 4/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Red Lip Day (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Red Lip Day (Stranger than Paradise)
40x30cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Heather and Zeuss the Goat featuring Heather Megan Christie - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heather and Zeuss (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013,
20x24cm, Edition 10/10,
digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 13137.17.
Not mounted,
featuring Heather Megan Christie
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in 29 Palms, California, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her mid century home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer named Heather, and played by Heather Megan Christie, Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise the project 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal.
The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film.
Getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and couldn't travel to the desert.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider will submit the film to the Slamdance film festival 2018 and it was broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte.
For more information visit Stefanie's 29 Palms, CA project.
Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Suburbia II - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Suburbia II - 2004
40x40cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Not mounted.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 20955.01.
This project "S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Day Worker (American Depression) - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Day Worker (American Depression) - 1999
Original Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1.
10.7 x 8.7 cm.
Artist inventory 20662.00.
Signed on back.
Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Radha Shooting II
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
38x36cm,
Edition of 30.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #259.
Not moun...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila and Sam from the movie Stay with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Color
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brandon (California Blue Screen) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Brandon' (California Blue Screen)
Edition of 3,
114x142 cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signat...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Margarita (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
48x46,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signed on verso.
Artist Inventory No. 8579.
Not mounted.
On offer is a pi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Speckles (Sidewinder), diptych - Analog Hand-Prints, Mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Speckles (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005,
127x126 each, installed 127x265cm,
Edition of 5,
2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
based on 2 P...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Dayworker - diptych, analog, based on two SX-70 Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dayworker (American Depression), diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
58x57cm each,
58x122cm installed including an 8cm gap in between both pieces.
2 analog C-Prin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Abstract (Deconstructivism) - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abstract (Deconstructivism) - 2022
Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1,
7.2 x 8.9cm (image area)
10.1 x 10.0 cm ( including white Polaroid frame)
Artist Inv. #24283.
Signed on verso.
Not...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Save me (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Self-Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Save me (Sidewinder) - 2005
30x30cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider: Fragments of a Lif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dreamgirl (triptych) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dream girl (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10
3 x 58x56 x 0.1 cm,
58 x 188 cm installed.
3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist.
based on the 3 Polaroids.
Signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Mother (Stranger than Paradise) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten & Ellis (Instantdreams) - 1998
Edition of 5,
40x40cm.
Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 1558.
Signature l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Just ok - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Just ok (High Desert) - 2019
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 22192
Not mounted.
Stefanie ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Morning (Last Picture Show) - 1999
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Morning (Last Picture Show) - 1999
40x40cm,
Edition of 10,
Lambda Print based on the Polaroid
Certificate and signature label
artist inventory number: 21181.
Not mounted.
Insta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Running rings around the moon (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pretty Woman (Memories of Green) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pretty Woman (Memories of Green) - 1999
Edition of 10,
50x50cm.
Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 20389.
Signature...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Light of Stars (Life on Mars) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Light of Stars (Life on Mars) - 2001
Edition of 10,
38x37cm.
Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 309.01.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
How can you do this to me? (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you do this to me? (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Immaculate Springs Set with Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Immaculate Springs Set with Jacinda Barrett - 1998
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
20x20cm,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Shooting I (Long Way Home) - 50x50cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting I (Stranger than Paradise), 1999,
48x46cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #254.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dominique and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dominique and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
38x48cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid
Not mounted,
Signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory N...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
'Looking back' (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Looking back' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition 1/10,
digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9485.01,
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Oilfields I (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Oilfields I' (Stranger than Paradise), 1999, 60x60cm,
Edition 5/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory Nr. 1214.05,
not mounte...
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dugong - Stay
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dugong (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006,
57x70cm, Edition 3/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, based on a Polaroid.
Certific...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Poolside (29 Palms) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool Side (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition of 30, 38x36cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 619.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
A Ger...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Heather’s Dream (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heather’s Dream (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
50x60, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
50x48cm each, 50x102cm together with gap.
2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids....
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Making out in Car' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Making out in Car (Till Death do us Part)
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 202...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print, based o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 355...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Analog, Landscape, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper (matte)
based on an expir...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Springtime (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Springtime (Suburbia) - 2004
50x60cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 18251.
Not mounted.
Thi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Enchanted - Saigon - 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Enchanted' (Saigon) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition 1/5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte Surface, Vintage Print, ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs
Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.
Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.
Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.
While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.
Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.
Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.
On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.