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Stefanie SchneiderZipper (Back in the 80's)1999
1999
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Zipper (Back in the 80's) - 1999
48x46cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #355.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider’s photographs resonate with the vastness of Ed Ruscha’s American landscapes, the sun-drenched isolation of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the quiet, cinematic solitude of Edward Hopper’s paintings. Her work doesn’t just depict a moment; it suspends it, stretching time across the hazy, sun-bleached frames of expired Polaroid film.
Polaroid photography has long been a tool of immediacy—a way to capture and crystallize the present. Some artists used it to document, to distill a fleeting instant into an artifact of pop culture. Schneider, however, bends the medium in the opposite direction. Her images don’t freeze time; they blur it. The imperfections of expired film—the washed-out colors, the chemical drifts, the soft distortions—become a language of memory and longing.
Where others used Polaroid to reflect the surface of a moment, Schneider plunges into its depths. Her images feel like echoes of a dream you can almost remember, like postcards from a place that never quite existed. There is nostalgia here, but not for something specific—rather, for a feeling, a story, a time that lingers just beyond reach.
By stripping Polaroid of its immediacy, she turns it into something more profound: a meditation on impermanence, on the way we hold onto the past even as it fades before our eyes. In doing so, she transforms what was once a simple tool of documentation into an instrument of storytelling, where every imperfection speaks and every frame breathes.
This is what sets Stefanie Schneider apart—not just as a photographer, but as an artist shaping the very narrative of contemporary visual culture.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 18.9 in (48 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652315825342
Stefanie Schneider
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 Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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