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Stefanie Schneider
Long Way Home - triptych, Polaroid, analog, Contemporary, pop-art

1999

$14,323.24
£10,687.39
€12,000
CA$19,973.05
A$21,887.61
CHF 11,430.16
MX$263,029.19
NOK 142,896.92
SEK 134,774.57
DKK 91,357.95

About the Item

Long Way Home (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999, 3 x 58x56cm, installed 58x180cm, (sold out Edition of 10), this is THE last Artist Proof 3/3. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 3 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 250.13. Not mounted. published in STRANGER THAN PARADISE (hatje cantz verlag) Ostfilder, 2006, (monograph). Stefanie Schneider: Alchemist of Light, Architect of Dreams Some artists document the world as it is; Stefanie Schneider reveals the world as it feels. Her work is a cinematic excavation of longing, memory, and the quiet beauty of imperfection. She has built an empire on the unpredictable grace of expired Polaroid film—where chemistry and fate conspire to blur the edges between past and present, dream and reality. Schneider’s artistry is a rebellion wrapped in tenderness. She embraced its fragility, turning chemical distortions into portals of nostalgia and poetic dissonance. Yet, her art is not just about the medium—it is a philosophy. Each faded hue and melting silhouette speaks to the ephemeral nature of existence, echoing the lost highways of Wim Wenders, the quiet devastation of a faded love letter, the cinematic stillness before a storm. From the sun-drenched desolation of the California desert to the spectral glow of half-remembered motels, her work captures a world teetering between illusion and truth. A place where time lingers, where stories are suspended in soft-focus light, refusing to resolve into simple conclusions. The figures in her images—lovers, wanderers, ghosts of a golden-hour past—exist on the margins, caught in an unspoken dialogue with the viewer. We do not just see them; we recognize them. Schneider has not merely preserved a dying medium—she has elevated it to something mythic, something wholly her own. Her work is at once contemporary and timeless, evoking the ghosts of Warhol’s silkscreens, the quiet grandeur of Edward Hopper, the melancholic resonance of a half-forgotten song playing on an old jukebox. In a world consumed by the relentless march of progress, she reminds us that beauty often lives in the flaws, in the spaces between moments, in the whispers of the past. Some artists capture history. Stefanie Schneider captures memory itself—before it fades, before it slips through our fingers like dust illuminated by desert light. And in doing so, she has changed not just how we see photography, but how we see ourselves.

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