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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Archival Paper
Radha Shooting I (starring Radha Mitchell) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Pop Art
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting I (Long Way Home) - 1999
78x76cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
38x36cm, Edition of 30.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 614.
Not mounted...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Clothesline (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - Contemporary, Portrait, Polaroid, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Clothesline (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
from the 29 Palms, CA Project
70x90cm,
Edition of 5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper,
matte s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 10,
50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Felix with Knife (California Bluescreen)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Felix with Knife (California Bluescreen) - 1997
38x48cm,
published in 'Stranger than Paradise',
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
Signature label and Certifi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Innocence (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 10,
50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Shannon Mccollum, Nina and Lil Yachty - 21st Century, Portrait Photography
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shannon Mccollum, Nina and Lil Yachty, Venice - 2014
Edition of 10,
20x30cm,
Archival C-Print, printed Fuji Archive matte.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Publish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled 09 (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 09 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Lighthouse (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Lighthouse (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I'm over it (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I'm over it (Till Death do us Part) - 2007 -
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory No. 8509,
not m...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
April blue Eyes (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Color, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
April Blue Eyes (Suburbia) - 2004
38x47cm,
Edition of 30,
archival Print based on the Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate,
artist inventory number: 402.11.
Not mounted.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Ronald' from the movie Immaculate Springs
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ronald' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 10,
50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature L...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Everything is built on shifting sands (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything is built on shifting sands (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dugong I - from Stay (the movie)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dugong I (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
31x39cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper,
based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 2130.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper 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,
58x56cm each, 58x124cm installed with gap.
2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji C...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
'Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 10,
20x30cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled 09 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 09 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
48x46cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004
40x39ccm.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, 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 the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #259.
Not mo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Happy
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Happy - 2001
20x29cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide.
Signature label and Certifi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Spiegelbild (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier and Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Spiegelbild (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2008
70x86cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - based on a Polaroid Original
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 16908.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider's '29 Palms, CA' project
29 PALMS, CA is a feature film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The world depicted in the film is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. The characters portrait in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic, a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on), are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them. The structure of the plot is fairly simple. An actress working as a telemarketer is inspired by a singer who is new to town and is featured on the local radio station. The radio station runs a program for lonely hearts and a charismatic DJ uses the show to reveal the hopes and dreams of the towns “hottest women”. One night a panicked German female caller captivates the community with a painful story about a sexy “Smoke Jumper” (a mysterious and super real alpha male). Everybody in town is listening to the program and nobody is quite sure what to say. Life in general continues and we witness and explore the various interactions. The actress meets the singer and they become famous. The US Army soldier dies on his way to battle. The foreign princess discovers that the jewels she has come to sell are fake. The motel owner‘s wife has an affair with the pool boys and so on. All the while the community is united by their loyalty to the “Lonely Hearts” radio show and through the disturbing revelations of the German woman...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Traveling the Tide (Cuxhaven) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traveling the Tide (Cuxhaven)- 2015
20x25cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory numb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Outback (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outback (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9305
Not mounte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tricks ( Till Death do us Part ) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tricks (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
43x59cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9764
Not mounted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hurry (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hurry (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory numb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girls (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9435.
Not mounted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Swinging (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Swinging (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 2934.
Not moun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 3612.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Easygoing (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Easygoing (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9426.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper 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 Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Homestead (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homestead (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9707.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Duet (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Duet (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
50x50cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9441.
Not mounted....
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Something (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Something (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9441.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Raquel Welch on Shore
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Raquel Welch on the shore, wearing a fur coat she is clothing around her.
Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Half forgotten Dream (Heavenly Falls) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Half forgotten Dream (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
50x50cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19565.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mirrored (Memories of Green)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mirorred (Memories of Green) - 2003,
Edition of 5,
58x56cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Numbe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Patriot (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, Contemporary,
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'The Patriot' (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 16902.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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
48x47cm,
Edition 1/10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Horizon (Zuma Beach), triptych - Contemporary, 21st century, Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Horizon (Zuma Beach) - 2004
38x37cm each, 38x121cm installed with 5 cm gaps,
Edition of 5,
3 Analog C-Prints, hand printed by the artist, based on the Polaroids.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 667.
Stefanie Schneider's "Zuma Beach" series captures the essence of summer through a unique blend of photography and Polaroid film. Featuring a range of subjects, from sunbathers to lifeguards to beachgoers, the series explores the iconic beach culture of Southern California.
Schneider's use of expired Polaroid film creates a dreamy, nostalgic quality in the images. The saturated colors and soft focus give the photographs a hazy, almost surreal feel that transports the viewer to a bygone era. With "Zuma Beach," Schneider captures the timeless appeal of the beach, reminding us of the carefree days...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled 03 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 03 (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell - 2007,
48x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Lonely Hearts DJ (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Lonely Hearts DJ (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 17050.01.
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 an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer .
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - 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 girls 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, 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, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. 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. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and 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 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.
Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, 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 not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck, if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'M' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'M' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 -
Edition of 10,
50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pas de deux (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pas de deux (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
Edition of 10,
20x20cm,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Artist inventory 20056.
Signature label and Certificate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 10,
50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
10525 (Stranger than Paradise, ) Edition 8/10 - 5 analog C-Prints
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
10525 (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999,
Edition 9/10,
5 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 5 Polaroids.
each 57x56 cm, installed with gaps 57x308cm.
Certific...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
My Darling come to me (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My Darling come to me (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Await (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Await (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 #13084. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Birdy (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Birdy (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm, Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
artist Inventory No. 7865.
Not mounted. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Afternoon Drifter (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Afternoon Drifter II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
58x57cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Like a Snowball down a Mountain (Stranger than Paradise) - diptych, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Like a Snowball down a Mountain (Stranger than Paradise) - diptych - 1998
43x59 cm each,
91x59cm installed.
Edition 4/5.
2 Analog C-Prints, hand-prin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nadia's Innocence (Stranger than Paradise) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nadia's Innocence (Stranger than Paradise) - 1998
43x59cm,
Edition of 5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #115.
Not mounted.
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tears we cried (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
40x48cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 8648.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Salton Sea Life (American Depression)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Salton Sea Life (American Depression) - 1999
48 x 46 cm,
Edition of 10 plus two artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Thursday II (Wonder Valley)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Thursday I (Wonder Valley) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #3646.
Not mounted.
publishe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flower (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flower (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 197639,
Not mounted.
THE GREATER THE EMPTINESS THE GRAN...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Terry O'Neill - Paul Newman & Lee Marvin, Photography 1972, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
American actors Paul Newman and Lee Marvin wearing cowboy hats Tucson, Arizona for a publicity still for Stuart Rosenberg’s 1972 comedy western film ‘Pocket Money’. From what Terry O...
Category
1970s Contemporary Archival Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
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