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Art Subject: Girl
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October ...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Bat For Lashes Halo - Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Bat For Lashes (Natasha Khan) in Brighton, January 2009 MOJO feature shoot (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition limited to 25 only this size Printed 2020 This size image: 20 x 24" / 51 x 61 cm OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE : Size 1. 16 x 20" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,500 Size 2. 20 x 24" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,950 Size 3. 24 x 30" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 3,375 Size 4. 30 x 40" Signed and numbered edition of 10 (+2 a/p). cost $ 5,605 Size 5. 40 x 60" Signed and numbered edition of 3 (1 a/p). cost $ 18,500 About the artist : Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands. The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities. For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London. The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely, Vincent Cassel, Audrey Tautou, Billy Bob Thornton, Ethan Hawke, Alan Rickman, Daniel Bruhl...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Norah Jones - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2006)
Located in London, GB
Norah Jones - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print Mojo Magazine November 17, 2006 Los Angeles (photo Kevin Westenberg) Unframed Signed and nu...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955. Addition...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

The lesson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objects, an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

At the Edge of the Jade by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Lake Turkana, or the ‘Jade Sea’ is a vast body of water in Kenya’s far north. It is surrounded by a barren landscape of red and black volcanic rocks, where rain falls for little more...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Otjitando by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Adaptive Athlete
Located in Kansas City, MO
JoLynne Martinez Adaptive Athlete Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Otjitando by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Che Guevara with his daughter
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category

1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Beads of the Omo Valley by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Arbore of southern Ethiopia are a small group living within a few square miles of the Omo Valley. They are located near to Lake Stefanie, known locally as Chew Bahir, a body of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Guatemala, Market, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 24, 2 x 24, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Untitled from "Pia"
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping in the US and a 14-day return policy. All prints are made to order and will arrive in mint condition directly from Christopher Anderson...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital P...

Wild Flowers In My Hair, Ethiopia by Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
"Wild Flowers in My Hair" Suri People of the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2023 30 x 20 in / Edition of 6 - $20,500 Also available: 48 x 32 in / Edition of 6 - $22,500 60 x 40 in / Editio...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bolivia, Potosí, Girl, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23.4 x 17.4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Bill Carroll , Norma Jeane #15 (Marilyn Monroe), hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
Category

1940s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Pamela Des Barres 1968 Groupies, signed limited edition silver gelatin print
Located in Austin, TX
Miss Pamela by Baron Wolman, taken in Los Angeles in 1968 as part of Baron's Groupies series, taken for Rolling Stone magazine. Limited edition number 2/1...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rolling Stones Brian Jones by Bill Wyman
Located in Austin, TX
The Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones photographed in the back of a chauffeured car on the way to the band’s concert at the Palazzo dello Sport in Milan, Italy. April 8th, 1967. ...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

EXCLUSIVE BEYONCE BOX SET by Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
Exclusive, set of three fine art prints of Beyonce by photographer Markus Klinko. Shot in 2003 for the album, Dangerously In Love NOTE: Set of three individual 20x24" limited edition prints, signed and numbered by Markus Klinko. These prints would usually be $4,400 each ($13,200 total), but Markus has agreed to let a set of three prints...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Portrait of Nicoletta Machiavelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli in a photo by Dufoto Agency - Rome.
Category

1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Vintage Photo of Painting by F. Gioli - Mother and Children - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting  - Mother and Children is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Album of historical paintings, meticulously captur...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Autographed Portrait of Marika Rökk - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
This blue ink Autograph Portrait of Marika Rökk is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German actress. Photo: Deutsche Film hansa/ Haenchen Around the 1960...
Category

1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Paper, Photographic Paper

Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti - Vintage B/W photo by ANSA - 1970s
By ANSA
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Monica Vitti is a vintage b/w photograph realized by Agenzia ANSA in 1970s. Good condition. Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the Aca...
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Melancholy (Haley and the Birds) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Melancholy (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Solitary (Haley and the Birds) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Solitary (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 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

Italian Fascism Era - School Girls - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Fascism Era - School Girls is a  vintage photo, realized in the 1920s . By Studio Gherlone.
Category

1920s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Misha and Nastya
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. These images were taken in Matador Schools and Military Boarding Schools over the course o...
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Women Working -Women's Rights Photos - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Working -Women's Rights  Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Caveat Emptor BanXsy
Located in PARIS, FR
X-ray lenticular artwork Signed - sticker label at the back of the artwork Lenticular is a ribbed lens that refracts light from different angles. When sequential images are split be...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print, Lenticular

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

Making Magic (The Girl...) - including the book "A Half Forgotten Dream"
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Making Magic (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap C...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Everything Is Built on Shifting... - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything Is Built on Shifting Sands (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2014 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardco...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Jules and Jim (Renée’s Dream) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jules and Jim II (Renée’s Dream) - 2006 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024. 20x...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Young Ballerina In Pose San Francisco Richard Edwards
Located in Soquel, CA
Young Ballerina In Pose San Francisco Richard Edwards Photo of a young ballerina posing. She is holding her right hand above her head, while her left hand is posed in front of her. ...
Category

1960s Photorealist Figurative Photography

Materials

Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Katya and Dasha (Sisters, Sentenced for Theft. Caught Stealing together with the
Located in New York, NY
Total edition of 7 Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Sailboats and Swans” is a series of portraits of prisoners in Russia ...
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Elizabeth Campbell Parks and Leslie, her daughter with the photographer and filmmaker Gor...
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Margarita (Till Death...) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita (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. 20...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

The Letter- including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Letter (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. 2...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Malina (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Malina (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

The Letter- including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Letter (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. 2...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

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

Slim Aarons, Clifftop Pool, Barranca, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. Slim Aarons 'Clifftop Pool' Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Vintage Poolside...
Category

1970s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Getting a ride from the base
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print Signed, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 24 inches (Edition of 9) 30 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons - Barbados Bliss - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Barbados Bliss - Estate Stamped Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, 1976. In his words, he loved to p...
Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lauren Bacall, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in New York. As a young model on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in 1944, she was whisked to California to co-star with Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not. They married and she made three more films with him in succession, The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage...
Category

1970s Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

The Actresses Paola Borboni, Diana Dei and Franca Maresa - Vintage Photo -1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Actresses Paola Borboni, Franca Maresa and Diana Dei in "three owls on the dresser" Romeo De Baggis. Directed by Terry D'Alfonso. Photo by Tommaso Le Pera.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Official Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Family Snapper 1959 Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vintage Photo Portrait of Sylvie Vartan - Late 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Sylvie Vartan is a vintage photographic print on single-coated paper shooted in '60s by unknown photographer. Excellent conditions. Dim: cm...
Category

1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Portrait of Jennifer Beals - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Venice Film Festiva, Venice 1983. Portrait of actress Jennifer Beals. Vintage Photo, good condition.
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

You don't love me! (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You don't love 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 Signature label...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait 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

How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you say that (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

Hide Out (Wastelands) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hide Out (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1168. Signature label and Cert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Breaking the Waves (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breaking the Waves (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #110....
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

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

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