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Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Oniichi, Ena Bunraku
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Those Kabuki players you see in my photographs are not with the mainstream Kabuki companies in Tokyo. They are with localized small groups located in various parts of Japan. They are...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hurry (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hurry (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory num...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fun Loving Criminals II by BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals II By BATIK- Signed Limited Edition Archival pigment pop art print of infamous criminal arrest mugshots of Fifty Cent, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Snoop Dog, ...
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Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Manny, Photography, Limited Edition, Boxing, Zanzibar, Street
Located in München, BY
Manny Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A butcher at the meat market in Stone Town on Zanzibar. The newsprint is there to wrap the meat for the customers. JJK is a ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Blockheads, Photography, Limited Edition, Street, Africa, Portrait
Located in München, BY
Blockhead Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A man at the market sells carved wooden heads and looks like one of the wooden heads himself. JJK is a pseudonym for one o...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
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Surrealist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Manny, Photography, Limited Edition, Boxing, Zanzibar, Street
Located in München, BY
Manny Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A butcher at the meat market in Stone Town on Zanzibar. The newsprint is there to wrap the meat for the customers. JJK is a ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Windmills of your Mind (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Windmills of your Mind (29 Palms, CA) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 16640. Not mounted. In Stefanie Schneider's evocative piece "Her Last Call," she presents a poignant scene featuring the talented actor Heather Megan Christie. The composition centers around a captivating image of Christie holding a red rotary phone...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Hungry Kitty, Photography, Limited Edition, Cityscape, Venice
Located in München, BY
Hungry Kitty Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The large winged lion in Venice Italy watches over a tourist eating her hamburger. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the wo...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Angel (Heavenly Falls)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Angel (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 9069. N...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - super-8, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005 20x57cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print based on the Super-8 footage. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory No ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Mother Nursing Her Child, Wearing Traditional Tribal Jewelry, Ethiopia, Calming
Located in US
"Untitled 13" This award-winning image features the bond between a Nyangatom mother as she nurses her child. The tribe’s women pride themselves on their high stacks of necklaces wh...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Even so (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Even so (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Episodes of Dissociation (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Episodes of Dissociation (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 40x48m, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Promise Me (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Promise Me (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

In Dubious Battle (Haley and the Birds) - triptych
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Dubious Battle (Haley and the Birds) - triptych - 2013 20x20cm each, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Certificate and ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature la...
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Contemporary 21st Century and 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) - 2008 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Do you know how it feels? (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Do you know how it feels? (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Hans (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hans (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 7...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Love you Actor Girl (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love you Actor Girl (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Starlight (Haley and the Birds)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Starlight (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

A widow bird sate mourning for her love (Heather's Dream) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A widow bird sate mourning for her love (Heather's Dream) - 2013 part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" featuring Udo Kier and Heather Megan Christie 38x48cm, Edition of ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Nude with Poppy
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 30 x 22.5 inches, image (Edition of 5 + 2 APs) 45 x 33.75 inches, image (Edition of 3 + 1 AP) This photograph is offered by Clamp...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Circle of Magic - A Wish - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Wish (Circle of Magic) from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2009 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Randy and I I (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Randy and I (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1170. Signature label and Cer...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Daydream (Haley and the Birds) - diptych
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daydream (Haley and the Birds), diptych - 2013 20x20cm each, 20x43 installed including gap, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Polaroid...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

"Caroline (LED)" Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 3/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Caroline (LED)" Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 3/3 by Larsen Sotelo *** Not framed - ships in a tube Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish ...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Last Season I (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Season I - so I walked away from my Valley (Wastelands), diptych - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Catherine D'Lish in Champagne Coupe I - Contemporary Portrait Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Catherine D'Lish, Tease-o-Rama, photograph capturing her champagne coupe Burlesque performance in Hollywood. Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque photography as he captu...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Vania (Sentenced for Murder): Men’s Prison
Located in New York, NY
Vania (Sentenced for Murder): Men’s Prison Ukraine 2010 Signed and numbered, verso Archival pigment print (Total edition of 7 + 2 APs) This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

I Know I Left That Six Pack Around Here Somewhere (~30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kirk Decker I Know I Left That Six Pack Around Here Somewhere Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 11 x 17.5 inches Framed: 19 x 23 x 2 inches Signed: On Label COA provide...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sweet Champagne - underwater portrait - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An ethereal underwater portrait of a woman with golden hair, gently wrapped in shimmering air bubbles, illuminated against a soft light green background. This piece invites viewers t...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Yuki Nonaka, Matsuo Kabuki
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Those Kabuki players you see in my photographs are not with the mainstream Kabuki companies in Tokyo. They are with localized small groups located in various parts of Japan. They are...
Category

Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dreamscape (Wastelands)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamscape - (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1152. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. Published in: WASTELANDS, published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph) Exhibited: Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007), Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) (2012) Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

I Love It
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Dutch proverb “a Jan Steen household” originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. Th...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Tenderness (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tenderness (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

For Your Eyes Only (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
For Your Eyes Only (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Blue Mountains (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Mountains (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1160. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. Published in: WASTELANDS, published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph) Exhibited: Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007), Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) (2012) Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Karine / Contemporary, Color, Photography, Analog, 21st Century, Hollywood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Karine', Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2018 Art Print on Velvet Watercolor Paper, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975)...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

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 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, art...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Tricksy (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tricksy (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fashion-Inspired Portrait of an Elite White Horse with a Black Bridle
Located in US
"Etched in Stone" This best-selling, award-winning image features the defined musculature of an all white-horse against a black backdrop. The print series Equus: Light & Form focus...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portrait of a Wild Horse on Sable Island, Fashion-Inspired, Vertical, Equestrian
Located in US
"Wind Blown" Drawn to the timeless, ethereal beauty that unfolds moment to moment during visits to Sable Island and her horses, Drew's images feature the unforgettable nature of wil...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

White Horse, photograph by Brad Wilson, limited edition, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"White Horse" is a signed photograph For millions of years, early humans evolved alongside all other wildlife in a completely analog world, sharing the same natural environments in ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Manuel, Barber (40% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Angie Jennings Manuel, Barber Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a mini...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rendering Memories II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13388. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider 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 an old 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, 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 property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots 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 (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Pursuit of Happiness (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Pursuit of Happiness (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 38x36cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Arti...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Traces of Time (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traces of Time (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13370. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider 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 an old 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, 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 property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots 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 (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Miss Shifty, Las Vegas - Contemporary Portrait Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps photographed the Rockabilly scene in England, Europe and America over seven years culminating in his book, 'Man's Ruin'. 'Miss Shifty' captures the chic vintage fashion...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled 25, Hussein Chalayan) 2006. Fashion Black & White Archival Print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sükan created the series as he was working for international magazines such as L'Uomo Vogue (Italy), A Magazine (France), Crash (France), Faces (Switzerland), and Muse Magazine (Ital...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

The Treatment (Heather's Dream) - Polaroid, Contemporary, color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Treatment (Heather's Dream) - 2013 with Udo Kier and Heather Megan Christie part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" 38x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Arch...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Teenage Kicks C-type Limited Edition Oversize
Located in London, GB
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition by Jamie Beeden, personal work. A portrait of a young girl at a club in Tufnell Park, London 2003. Jamie's body of work includes varied maga...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

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...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sabachi, Kenya, Elephant, black and white photography, wildlife
Located in München, BY
Edition 10 more sizes on request This image shows the Orphaned elephant Baby named "Sabachi" in the Orphanage of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Born in Germany in 195...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eileen, Las Vegas, Nevada - Man's Ruin Series - Fashion Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Eileen, photograph from Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' series and features in his book of that title. This glamorous cinematic poolside portrait of a woman in an elegant vintage swimsuit...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tim - the Gentle Giant, Elephant, Mixed Media, black and white photography
Located in München, BY
Unique Piece / One of a Kind Joachim is one of the multifaceted artists among Fine Art Photographers and started this style of work already more than 30 years ago. All these pieces ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment

Natsuki Tukamoto, Matsuo Kabuki
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Those Kabuki players you see in my photographs are not with the mainstream Kabuki companies in Tokyo. They are with localized small groups located in various parts of Japan. They are...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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