Early 2000s Portrait Photography

Once We Were Warriors - 2007 20x20cm. Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2, LAST PRINT. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...

This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Lollipop (Beachshoot) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Under glass with a white wooden...

The way we were (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 48x58cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 9088. No...

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,...

Michael Childers Andy Warhol in New York, 1976, 2007 Photographic print Signed and numbered 8/60 on the front in black felt tip marker Frame included ...

Peter Beard Portraits of classical concert pianist Concert Pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen in artists frame, 2006 Four (4) separate Chromogenic prints (c-print) in artist's frame. Hand signed Signed and dated boldly in green marker by Peter Beard lower right Original artist's frame included This unique set of four works by the late Peter Beard features Vietnamese concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen - one of Beard's muses. Peter Beard is well-known as one of Andy Warhol's friends and artistic collaborators during the Studio 54 and Factory days. But of all his many achievements, including his critically acclaimed wildlife photography, Beard is perhaps best known as the photographer who famously discovered the model Iman in Somalia, and whose images of her helped catapult her to international superstardom. Iman would later marry rock star David Bowie. In a similar vein, this set of intimate, posed photographic portraits depicts Vietnamese concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen (also known as Cho-San Nguyen), founder of the American Vietnamese Friendship Organization (AVFO). Taken in 2006, the works show her seductively posing against a stylized backdrop of portraits of famous composers. In addition to her musical accomplishments and charitable ventures, Cho-San Nguyen is also quite the socialite herself, and in those years, she frequently appeared in the tabloids for a different reason: she was rumored to be one of the many alleged mistresses (or muses) of the very married, and very influential Google billionaire Eric Schmidt...

The way we were (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label...

Salton Sea Life (American Depression) - 1999 58x56cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 1 analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label an...

Jersey Girls Yellow, from Richard Heeps Jersey Shore series. Vintage matchbooks from the Chelsea flea market featuring nudes from the 1940's are reim...

She finished her studies at the Art Institute of the Pedagogical University in Cracow, obtaining a diploma at a drawing atelier of professor Piotr Jargusz; she currently is a lecture...

Whisky Dance (Sidewinder) - 2005 - Edition 2/5, 8 pieces installed including gaps 172x338cm, 82x80cm. 8 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, ...

Hand signed, numbered and titled on verso. Image Size: 10 X 10 Inches. Sheet Size: 20 X 16 Inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition ...

Hand signed, numbered and titled on verso. Image Size: 10 X 10 Inches Sheet Size: 20 X 16 Inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition o...

Edition of 5 Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink on print verso. Series: New Suburbia Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he pi...

DETAIL FROM: SELFPORTRAIT WITH VELVET CAP AND GOWN WITH FUR COLLAR, 2008 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, 1634, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN 53.4 x 40 inches ed. of 7 $4,400 66.7 x 50 ed. of 5 $6,800

Zabriskie Point (Stranger than Paradise) - PART IV - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. ...

Audrey - Signed limited edition archival pigment print , Edition of 5 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1400. ...

Like the Wind II (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2008 23x53.5cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Super-8 Stills. Certificate and Signatur...

Solitary (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # ...

Very berry Cosmo II (Suburbia) - 2004 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory #209...

'Last supper' of 13 Michelin-starred Chefs... John Reardon is particularly associated with his portraits of chefs for the Observer Food Monthly (UK) for which this commission based o...

The Muse (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x20cm, SOL...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

Because I Am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...

"A native of Los Angeles, California, Sean Lotman (b. California) grew up frequenting the movie theaters of southern California, dazzled by their stories, sets, and vivid colors. Ini...

Pink is a limited edition vintage black and white portrait of a woman boxer with her hands held in fists, posing in a hotel room. Vi...

The Cow Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A cow on the top of the hills in the Bavarian Alps. Every year the cows are taken to the pastures on the mountain pastures w...

The Cow Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A cow on the top of the hills in the German Alps. Every year the cows are taken to the pastures o...

The Cow Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A cow on the top of the hills in the German Alps. Every year the cows are taken to the pastures o...

The Cow Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A cow on the top of the hills in the Bavarian Alps. Every year the cows are taken to the pastures on the mountain pastures w...

The Cow Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A cow on the top of the hills in the German Alps. Every year the cows are taken to the pastures o...

The Pursuit of Happiness (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Arti...

Mayfair Lane, #01 (The last Picture Show) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1035. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The expired and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is tightly controlled with an existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway...

Spiegelbild (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature labe...

L(i)ebe (Stage of Consciousness) - from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 starring Udo Kier 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the origi...

The Party is over (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007, from the 29 Palms, CA project - 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signatur...

Like the Wind II (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2008 23x53.5cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Super-8 Stills. Certificate and Signatur...

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...

Forrest Gump Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A tourist at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa takes a photo and wears a T-shirt with the slogan from Forrest Gump. ...

Forrest Gump Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A tourist at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa takes a photo and wears a T-shirt with the slogan from Forrest Gump. ...

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...

Forrest Gump Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A tourist at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa takes a photo and wears a T-shirt with the slogan from Forrest Gump. ...

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...

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...

Lonely Longing (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. 16639. 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...

In Hiding (29 Palms, CA) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #5723. Not...

Actor Girl - part I (29 Palms, CA) - 2008, 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...

Cinderella (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #5721. No...

False Pretenses (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #573...

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 ...

The Letter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...

Lovely large portrait of a teenage girl seated in orange prom dress, titled "Sweet Sixteen #13". Chromogenic dye coupler print on paper. Limited Edition #1/16. Print is offered frame...

The Letter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 250x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artis...