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Into Eternity (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 893. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up. That’s when the shooting started… Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila. Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty. She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy. That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...

Chinese historical and ethnic photograph is a set of eight original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm. Six Images 8 x 11 cm on the front and six on the rear. T...

Rodeo Grounds (Till Death do us Part) - 2010 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...

Slim Aarons - Harbour Island - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only Harbour Island in the Bahamas, May 1967 (Photo by Slim Aarons). This phot...

Chalet Costi Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...

29 Palms Oasis (29 Palms, CA) - 2013 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Invent...

Jack's (Sidewinder) 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist Inventory 3099. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider lives a...

Korean Woman - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century. Wi...

Palm Blue House A tall palm tree stretches above the shell of a blue coloured house near Galle, Sri Lanka, 2013. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and ...

This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Signed on label, verso

Star Ship (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 926. Not mo...

A Small Town in The United States- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th C...

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...

Roommates (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory ...

Archival pigment print Signed, titled, and dated, verso (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: Chris Ironside is a Toront...

Isletas Family by Alain Le Garsmeur Banana plantation workers outside their homes, Isletas banana plantation, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Archival Pigment Print and limited edition per paper size offered. FRAMING: Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service. If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote. Galerie Prints is proud to share with you this extraordinary body of Alain Le Garsmeur's insightful and beautifully captured photographic work, from the late 1970s and early 80s. Alain Le Garsmeur (1943 - ) is an award-winning editorial documentary photographer for publications which included Figaro Magazine,
The Independent, Newsweek, and The Observer
as well as The Sunday Times. Born in France, he later moved to London where he studied at The Ealing College of Art Photography School. He soon became an assistant to great photographers such as Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Donald Silverstein, working in both Paris...

Vintage poster after a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the italian most famous contemporary photographers. Titled at the bottom. Very good conditions. Fontana st...

Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1980s. Good conditions. the landscape of Albania through the art of photography is captured ...

Photographer Jerry Siegel was born and raised in Selma and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. His first monograph, “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists,” was publis...

Red Riding Hood 1959 A woman dressed in a hooded red cape walks through a ski resort in winter, 1959. by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment...

High Desert (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Numbe...

Out Going (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number ...

Colon is a lot of two different prints made by photographers of the end of 19th Century. Prints in excellent condition, applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian ink hand-w...

Kentucky Thoroughbred by Alain Le Garsmeur A thoroughbred horse on the Calumet horse farm, Blue grass country, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, 1984. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 c...

'Santa Maria Smoke' 1981 by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Villagers sharing a smoke in Santa Maria, a small village on the border with Honduras, Nicaragua, Central America, 1981. Paper size : 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Limited edition Edition Size 5 only this paper size Printed 2021 certificate of authenticity provided All prints are on archival photographic papers and limited edition per paper size offered. Total editions per image 100 only. 10x12 inches edition size 25 12x16 inches edition size 20 20x16 inches edition size 20 20x24 inches edition size 15 30x20 inches edition size 8 40x30 inches edition size 5 60x40 inches edition size 5 72x48 inches edition size 2 Alain Le Garsmeur was born in France in 1943 and after assisting the likes of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Donald Silverstein became a prolific editorial documentary photographer for publications which included Fiagaro Magazine, The Independent, Newsweek and the The Observer as well as The Sunday Times. See photo Bio for more details. 1980s 1980 80 USA smoking smoke lads men boys...

Rebecca Skinner’s “Alkabo II” is a 24 x 36 inch black and white photograph captured in a North Dakota ghost town. Dramatic sky frames a weathered structure in this beautiful contempo...

Zephyr At Night - Oversize Limited Edition Signed Edition size 100 only 40x30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size by Irie Wata Surrealist artist surr...

Tobaccos is one of the best photo realized by the italian artist Carlo Caboni in 2020. Always passionate about landscapes and photography, the artist then devoted himself to landsca...

Cooper Union - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American l...

Signed and numbered, verso Chromogenic print (Edition of 100) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

White Picket Fence (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature labe...

Digital C-print (Edition of 10) Signed, dated, and numbered, verso 30 x 35.5 inches, sheet 22 x 27 inches, image This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Ple...

Hacienda Trailer Park (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Invento...

Hollywood (Instantdreams) - 1998 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory...

Vintage View on the city of Sandakan is a b/w photographic print on polished paper, taken very likely in 1938 by Press Photo, Berlin. Stereotype on the back. In very good conditions....

Somerset (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory 4506. Not...

The solar panels is an original vintage photograph realized by an anonymous photographer With the hand-notes on the rear. Good conditions.

Working women - Historical Photographs about the Feminist Movement is an original vintage photograph realized by anonymous photographer With the stamp o...

John Rawlings 1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...

Akeley, Minnesota, 2007 2007/printed later Signed in black ink, verso Archival pigment print 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm), sheet 4.75 x 5.5 inches (12.1 x 14 cm), image This w...

Anti-electric space is a vintage photograph realized in 1955 by an Anonymous photographer. With the description stamped and copyright on the rear. Good conditions.

Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 38x36cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist inventor...

Casa Alpina memorial photo is an original Black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous Italian photographer. With the original stamp on the rear"photo Reportage Torino" Very ...

The Bird Cage (Heather's Dream) - 2013 part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" 38x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Cer...

My Chest Felt Squeezed (Heather's Dream) - 2013 38x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inv...

Setting Out 1951 Two skiers set out through snow covered streets, Klosters, Switzerland, 1951. by Toni Frissell 60 x 60 “ / 152x 152 cm - paper size Archival pigment print unfra...

Hawaiian Scenes 1957 A meal at a beachside restaurant, Hawaii, 1957 by Toni Frissell 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 60 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...

Vintage black and white photo of the Mausoleum of August. In the centuries, the Mausoleum has undertaken numerous changes, starting from 1800, when it was transformed in a theatre. W...

A Drink With A View 1959 A group of friends enjoy an alfresco après-ski drink, 1959 by Toni Frissell 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (fram...

Something Today (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signatur...

Good Times (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature lab...

On Air (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

Ancient Japanese ethnographic photographs from Nagasaki is a set of 8 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm. Four images in the front and four on the rear ...

Vintage black and white photo representing some old houses in Piazza della Consolazione, in Rome city centre, that probably do no longer exist. Photo taken ...

Alpine Railway Station 1951 Skis stacked up outside and alpine railway station, Klosters, Switzerland, 1951. by Toni Frissell 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Archival...

Alpine Railway Station 1951 Skis stacked up outside and alpine railway station, Klosters, Switzerland, 1951. by Toni Frissell 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Archival ...

Labyrinth (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 40x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...

' Cola Café ' Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Children wait outside a cafe with Pepsi Cola sign in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Note all prints are limit...