Stefanie Schneider

Springtime (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography

2004

Neighborhood Garden (Suburbia) - 2004 60x80cm, Edition of 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Projection. Artist Inventory No. 405.01. Signed on verso. The project "Suburbia" was shot on the set of Marc Forster's first feature film 'Everything put Together' with Radha Mitchell, Michelle Hicks, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Matt Malloy and others. Suburbs collectively, or the people who live in them Suburb { a district, especially a residential one, on the edge of a city or large town } synonyms [Outer edge , Fringes, Periphery, Limits, Outer reaches, Environs ] Sunday in suburbia, a summer's day heavy with heat, hardly a soul to be seen. As a result, the motifs of Stefanie Schneider's “Suburbia” cycle – put together in California, in the very west of the USA – are virtually inconspicuous.Schneider's camera encircles an idyllic American setting, capturing a garden practically empty of people. Surrounded by a white picket fence, flowers and trees bloom profusely in the blazing sunlight. The day is empty and quiet like only a Sunday can be. The grass is perfectly cut, the garden well tended, the inhabitants oblivious to everything and lethargic. An instant is seized, revealing the tragedy of an average, unsuccessful, middle class life. The scene is familiar from countless movies and American literature; the perfect façade of an American ideal, which seems to conceal the horror of daily life. In David Lynch's „Blue Velvet“ the film begins with the camera rolling over a similar setting: the view over the fence, the painstakingly neatly cut lawn, ending with a close-up: a cut-off ear covered with feasting ants. Stefanie Schneider overdoes it, she exaggerates: this is confirmed by the irritating colourfulness as well as the vehemence of the motifs. Emptiness stands in stark contrast to the beauty of the blooming roses or the lush growth of the trees. The fenced, idyllic summer scene appears vacant; unused chairs surround a table, the grill untouched and clean, no object out of place. It is only the inhabitants who appear curiously lost. Schneider shows them in the middle of their saturated lives, in well-tended averageness, which can only be endured with a Martini on ice, on hand before lunch. In her opinion the scenes are banal, yet one becomes witness to great intimacy. Schneider's „Suburbia“ cycle lives from the interplay of the motifs, and tells a story with the same flavour as American author Raymond Carver...

The Edge of Suburbia (Suburbia) - 2004 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 422.01....

Rosegarden II (Suburbia) - 2004, Edition of 1/5, 60x80cm. analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Projecti...

Springtime (Paris) - 1995 Edition of 5, 50x60cm including white borders. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist and based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate....

Springtime, 2022 Unique Cyanotype Print Arches Aquarelle Paper Edition 1/7 14 x 11” / 36 x 28 cm + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Signed and ...

Artist Commentary: Koyo's photograph of reflections on a glass window resembles the composition of an abstract painting with large, flat shapes and elegant grays. Keywords: photogra...

SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Leopards. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the season...

Fiori di prugno al vento (Plum Blossoms in the Wind) City: Santeramo, Italy Date: 2025 Photograph taken with Polaroid camera. Unique piece, embossed, signed on the back, and comes wi...