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Art Subject: Dress
Dolly Parton portrait by Ed Caraeff
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Dolly Parton, taken in Los Angeles, September 24th This stunning print is also available in the following sizes with a limited edition of 50. 20" x 24" 30" x 40" 40" x 60" Ed Caraeff is a photographer and art director. He has worked with, photographed, designed or art directed hundreds of album covers. His photography archive includes Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and The Stooges...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Runaway (Till Death...) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Runaway (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa u...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Debra Pearlman, Yellow Dress, archival pigment print, Ed of 3, Photography
Located in Darien, CT
Photography has always occupied a central place in Debra Pearlman’s work, as direct street photography and as source material for paintings and photo-based objects. The subjects are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Portrait of Antonella Lualdi- Vintage Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi
Category

1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Party Is Over (Oxana’s 30th..) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Oxana’s 30th Birthday) - 2007 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. featu...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

A Man and A Woman (Sidewinder) including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Man and A Woman (Sidewinder) - 2005 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x20...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Rodeo Grounds (Till Death...) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rodeo Grounds (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2010 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Debra Pearlman, Yellow Dress, archival pigment print, Ed of 3, Photography
Located in Darien, CT
Photography has always occupied a central place in Debra Pearlman’s work, as direct street photography and as source material for paintings and photo-based objects. The subjects are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli in a photo by G.B.Poletto
Category

1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Debra Pearlman, Cuba 1, archival pigment print, Ed of 3, Portrait Photography
Located in Darien, CT
Photography has always occupied a central place in Debra Pearlman’s work, as direct street photography and as source material for paintings and photo-based objects. The subjects are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Elaine in Mirror, Club Infinity, New York, NY
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category

1970s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Dye Transfer

Debra Pearlman, Yellow Dress, archival pigment print, Ed of 3, Photography
Located in Darien, CT
Photography has always occupied a central place in Debra Pearlman’s work, as direct street photography and as source material for paintings and photo-based objects. The subjects are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.
Category

1980s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - B/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi during "Canale 3". Lightly damaged.
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Debra Pearlman, Yellow Dress, archival pigment print, Ed of 3, Photography
Located in Darien, CT
Photography has always occupied a central place in Debra Pearlman’s work, as direct street photography and as source material for paintings and photo-based objects. The subjects are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Mrs. Red Skelton Poses - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Mrs. Red Skelton Poses is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod in the 1940s, realized by De Wan Studios. On the back "Mrs. Red Skelton poses for her ...
Category

1940s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

New morning, Cape Town, 21st century, contemporary, photography
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10 Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar (b. 1941), where the miseen-scene often subtly references literature and film. Olivar orig...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong - Vintage Photograph - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong is a vintage photograph realized in 06/05/1960. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted in a well-b...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Nelson Sullivan, His Home, 5 Ninth Avenue, Meatpacking District, New York City
Located in New York, NY
This black and white photograph by Paula Gately Tillman is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Nelson Sullivan, His Home, 5 Ninth Avenue, Meatpack...
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Shreya and Harsha, Diptych. From The Third Gender of India Series. Framed.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The term "hijra" applies to a very diverse group of people in India who identify as third gender. They can range from a natural born hermaphrodite to a male cross dresser. Dating bac...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Fashionable Virna Lisi - Vintage B/W Photographic Print - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Fashionable Virna Lisi is an amazing vintage b/w photo of the Italian actress herself realized in 1961 by the famous Italian designer and photographer Willy...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Patricia Field in Green
Located in New York, NY
This is a color photograph by Aaron Cobbett offered by CLAMP in New York City. Patricia Field in Green n.d. Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink, verso Archival pigment print...
Category

1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Capote at Home, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
Category

1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ivy Nicholson in New York for American Vogue, 1957
Located in Austin, TX
Model and future Factor Star, Ivy Nicholson in New York for American Vogue, 1957 by Norman Parkinson NORMAN PARKINSON POSTHUMOUS LIMITED EDITION PRINTS ...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights is an original vintage photograph realized by an anonymous photographer. With the stamp of Avanti"...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Sunset - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Oxana’s 30th Birthday) - 2007 featuring Radha Mitchell including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 196 pages, hardcover, published by Snap ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Kate Bush
Located in Austin, TX
Portrait of singer and dancer, Kate Bush by acclaimed photographer, Gered Mankowitz, taken in his London studio in 1978. Kate Bush has seen a huge resurgence...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Portrait of Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane during a television broadcast. Photo by Italian news agency S.P.A. Lightly blurry.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Adriana Maliponte - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Adriana Maliponte (italian soprano)is an original black and white photograph realized in 1970s. Good conditions.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Italian Actress Paola Borboni - Vintage Photo -1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. In this photo by the Italian news agency S.p.a, there is the Italian actress Paola Borboni with an other player during a play.
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Gianni Morandi and Ornella Vanoni - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Ornella Vanoni - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Flo Astaire - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Flo Astaire is an original black and white photograph realized in 1980s. Good conditions.
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions but with oxidation.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Madonna by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Madonna by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie st...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'New York Debs'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons New York Debs 1958 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Leading New York debutante...
Category

1980s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Workers from all over the world - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Workers from all over the world is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer With the stamp of "Avanti" hand-note on the rear. Good conditions.
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

New release - BEYONCE, DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE monochrome
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of Beyonce by photographer Markus Klinko. Shot in 2003 during the cover sessions of the album, Dangerously In Love This print is available in the foll...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

False Pretenses (29 Palms, CA) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Cinderella (29 Palms, CA) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

I don't like it (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I don't like it (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 label. A...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signa...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

There is no Solution (Till Death do Us part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
There is no Solution (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 labe...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

But I Love You (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
But I Love You! (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 label. A...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Bing Crosby and Friends - b/w Photograph - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Bing Crosby and Friends is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod '40 realized by De Wan Studios. On the back "From left: Edward J. Crowley, Mrs. Crowl...
Category

1940s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Milton Greene, "05" from The Pekingese Dog Sitting
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a pigment print from the original negative, shot by Milton Greene in 1955. This photograph of Marilyn Monroe is from a photoshoot which became known as "The Pekingese D...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Jackie K, Estate Edition Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls, Jacqueline Kennedy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic photography of young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April in Paris' ball with classic pearls, red lipstick, a white sati...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Side Effects (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Side Effects (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 #13303. 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 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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Two Crisp Fashion Photographs, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist Untitled, 21st century Color photographs Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 x 3/4 in. (each) These lovely fashion photographs would compliment any...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Tina Chow Dancing at Karl Lagerfeld dinner at MOMA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique photograph taken by Andy Warhol. Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation invento...
Category

1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Traces of Time II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traces of Time II (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 #13371. 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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed painting...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Wellesboro High School
Located in New York, NY
Wellesboro High School PA, 1991 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso (Total edition of 5) Vintage gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches, sheet $6,10...
Category

1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Muskan and Sangita, Protraits. From The Third Gender of India Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The term "hijra" applies to a very diverse group of people in India who identify as third gender. They can range from a natural born hermaphrodite to a male cross dresser. Dating bac...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Primrose (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Primrose (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 Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signatu...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Cricket on the Nose Scene - (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signatu...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

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