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Portrait Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Rankin
The Party is over (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Party is over (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
50x50cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - analog, not mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - 4 pieces, 2003
Edition of 5,
105x100cm each, 220x220cm installed.
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part) - 2007,
20x20cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 8583.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
When would forever be a good time? part II (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When would forever be a good time? part II (Till Death do us Part) - 2007,
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Decision (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Decision - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #762.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider's photographs evoke scintillating moments suspended between daydreams and waking reality. Each scene, captured in the southwestern United States, radiates a surreal enchantment. The artist's role appears minimal yet pivotal, providing the decisive impulse that sets the imagery into motion. The figures in her photographs remain as elusive as the motivations behind their actions, and the narratives woven through her sequences are tantalizingly open to interpretation.
Atmospheric disturbances in Schneider's work emerge as the result of a deliberate narrative arrangement, compelling viewers to navigate between visual mementos and the gaps in memory they conjure. Yet, her artistry is no less purposeful in its engagement with medium. Despite the inherent unpredictability of expired Polaroid film, Schneider wields it with calculated intent. The photo-chemical self-developing process, altered by age and decay, transforms the initial exposure into something alien yet mesmerizing. This dysfunction is a cornerstone of MIND SCREEN, a multi-part work that explores the fragility of reality, authenticity, and comprehension.
Schneider juxtaposes this brittleness with a magical realism steeped in chimeras, crafting dreamlike sequences that resist definitive narratives. She entrusts viewers with the responsibility of piecing together presumed storylines, refusing to offer a manual for interpretation. Instead, her work draws us into a realm where the unreal reigns—shimmering scenes that evoke the mirage of a road movie, a moment of violence, or a tragic self-sacrifice.
Film genres are invoked and subverted in a single breath: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders is reimagined through a rose-tinted lens, Thelma...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - Polaroid, Pop-art, Contemporary, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - 1999
published in 'Stranger than Paradise'
128x126cm
Sold out edition of 5, Artist proof 2/2,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled (Olancha) - Stranger than Paradise - analog C-Print based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Olancha) - 2006,
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Diva (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Vintage, analog, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Diva (Beachshoot) - 2005
50x50cm, Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1461.
Not mounted.
Beachshoot
St...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - Polaroid, Pop-art, Contemporary, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - 1999
published in 'Stranger than Paradise'
128x126cm
Sold out edition of 5, Artist proof 2/2,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
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
The Prince (The Princess and her Lover) - Polaroid, Portrait, Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Prince (The Princess and her Lover), 2007,
part of the 29 Palms, CA project,
Edition of of 10, 20x20cm, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate, a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
Edition of 10,
58x57cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels)- 2005
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs - 100x60cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nastasia with Gun - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nastasia with Gun (High Desert) - 2019
Edition 1/10,
50x50cm,
Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider: A German...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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 Kiss (Sidewinder) - mounted, analog - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, photo
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Kiss (Sidewinder) - 2005
125x154cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on verso.
Artist Inventory No. 3120.02.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
This piece ships in a crate.
Schneider harnesses the unpredictable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film, where bursts of color erupt across the surface, destabilizing the photograph's traditional allegiance to reality. These vivid distortions draw her characters into ethereal, trance-like dreamscapes. Like fleeting sequences from a vintage road movie, Schneider’s images shimmer with a transitory quality, dissolving before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Their ephemeral essence is conveyed through subtle gestures and enigmatic motives. Refusing to yield to the constraints of reality, Schneider’s work keeps alive a delicate interplay of dream, desire, fact, and fiction, blurring the boundaries between them with poetic ambiguity.
Stefanie Schneider’s work echoes the heart of American art, channeling the cinematic nostalgia of Ed Ruscha’s roadscapes, the stark sensuality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the haunting solitude of Edward Hopper...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
White Tank (My own Private Travel Diary) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Tank, Joshua Tree (My own Private Travel Diary) - 1999,
43x59cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Cer...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Leopard Dress II with Radha Mitchell based on a Paloroid Original - last
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Leopard Dress II (29 Palms, CA), 1999,
102x100cm,
sold out Lumas Edition of 100, Artist Proofs 3/3.
Lambda Print, based on an expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature lab...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Primary Colors - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, USA, Polaroid, Flag
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Primary Colors (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001
Edition 1/5,
9 pieces, each 48x47cm, installed 159x156cm including
5 cm gap in between each piece.
9 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memories of Love II (The Girl...) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence), 2013
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Waiting (Sidewinder) - Contemporary, Nude, Figurative, Polaroid, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Sidewinder) - 2005
98x97cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tropics Motor Motel II (Memories of Green)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tropics Motor Motel II (Memories of Green) - 1999
Edition 1/10,
58x56cm.
ANALOG C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hillview Motel (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hillview Motel (Stranger than Paradise) - triptych, 2003
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
20x66cm installed, 20x20cm each.
3 archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rodeo Grounds - Till Death du us Part - diptych, 128x150cm and 128x126cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rodeo Grounds (Till Death do us Part) - 2010, diptych
Edition 1/5.
128x150cm and 128x126cm together 126x286cm including a 10 cm space in between both pieces,
Analog C-Print print,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
After All (Cyndi Lauper) - 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After All (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' Cyndi Lauper record Album) - 2009
48x46cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reality (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reality (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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
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 and Certificate.
Artist i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
INSTANTDREAMS published by Avenso, Berlin, 2014 - Monograph and C-Print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
INSTANTDREAMS - Monograph - signed
Hardcover Edition, 62 pages.
published by Avanso, Berlin, 2014
ISBN 978-3-935971-69-0
This book comes with a 20x20cm "Her Last Call II"
Edition o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Analog, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Austen in front of Trailer', (Till Death do Us part), 2005, 48 x 46 cm,
Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist , based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Film, Archival Paper
Her last Call (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - framed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Her last Call II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
80x80cm,
Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Mounted and Shadow frame.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 16495.02.
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 in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
Midnight Cowboy (Back in the 80's)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Midnight Cowboy (Back in the 80's) - 2001
48x46cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #576.
Not mounted....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Center - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Center (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10,
48x60cm.
Archival Print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on dibond with matte UV-Protection.
Signature label and Cert...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Many Fairytales (The Princess and her Lover) - Polaroid, 21st Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
'You are my Baby' (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'You are my Baby' (Till Death do us Part), 2005,
20x24cm,
Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9377....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Max and Radha sitting on Rock (Long Way Home) - featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max and Radha sitting on Rock (Long Way Home) - 1999
featuring Radha Mitchell
38x37cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate an...
Category
1990s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Color
Zipper (Back in the 80's)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Zipper (Back in the 80's) - 1999
48x46cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #355.
Not mounted.
Stefan...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Long Way Home III, analog, 128x125cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Long Way Home III' (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
128x125cm,
Edition 1/10,
analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Not mo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lollipop Mini - mounted - featuring Radha Mitchell, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis -
The size of a Polaroid.
Lollipop (Beachshoot) featuring Radha Mitchell, 2005.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Sandwiched in ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate ...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Leopard Dress III - Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid, Photograph, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Radha Leopard Dress III' (29 Palms, CA)
Edition 3/10, 20x20cm, 1999,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory 18258.03.
Not mounted.
Featuring Australian actress Radha Mitchell.
Living and working in Los Angeles and Berlin, Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
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.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Participating and curating the newly founded Polaroid Museum at the Bombay Beach Biennale 2019 (G)
invited project at Saatchi's The Other Art Fair, LA - Polaroid Curation
Instant Dreams USA film release March/April NYC, L.A.
2018
participating and curating Bombay Beach Biennale 2018 (G)
Rough Play Project, Available for all, Joshua, Tree, USA (G)
2017
BLICKFELD] Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog)
Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)
2016
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin
(S)
2015
Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G)
2014
Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G)
6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G)
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
2013
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images
For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog)
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)
2012
Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S)
Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S)
Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell...
MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G)
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum
Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog)
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog),
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May
2012
Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen, and others
Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S)
2011
Kunst zu verlosen ! // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 9 pieces - Polaroid, Vintage, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 2005
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs.
37x36cm each, installed 126x123cm.
9 archival C-Prints, based on the 9 Polaroids.
Certificate and Sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Morning Rose - Polaroid, Contemporary, Roses, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Morning Rose' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory ...
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. 483...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Narween (Saigon) -20x20cm, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, AP1/2
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003
sold out Edition of 5, this is Artist Proof 1/2,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist inventory Number 469.15.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Haley and the Birds (29 Palms, CA) - based on a Polaroid Original
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird (29 Palms, CA) - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hillview Motel (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage, based on 3 Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hillview Motel (Stranger than Paradise) - triptych, 2003
Edition 6/10,
183x56cm installed, 58x56cm each,
3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 3 original Pol...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
Proof b4 Printing / 128x125cm
signed, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid,
signed on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
My Darling come to me (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My Darling come to me (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Narween (Saigon) - vintage, Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003
58x56cm,
Edition 4/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 469.04.
Signature labe and Cert...
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) - 1999
Edition 8/10.
60x67cm including white frame.
Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inv...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Don't Give up on Us Baby (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Don't Give up on Us Baby (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Old Woman Spring Road (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Old Woman Spring Road (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Art...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ensign Broderick I (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ensign Broderick I (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
100x120cm,
Edition 3/5.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Cer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stranger than Paradise II - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stranger than Paradise II, 2005, 57x56 cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid,
signed on Verso with Certific...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Spare Parts (29 Palsm, CA) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Spare Parts' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 3/5, 128x125 cm,
Analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid, enlarged by the artist,
Not mounted, Artist inventory 792.18
With Radha Mitchell and Max Sharam
Living and working in Los Angeles and Berlin, Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
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.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
Exhibitions Selected (selected)
2017
BLICKFELD] Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)
2016
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin
(S)
2015
Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G)
2014
Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G)
6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G)
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
2013
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images
For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding...
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.
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