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Art Subject: Snow
Three wild horses in the mist on their beautiful, untamed home: Sable Island
Located in US
Three wild horses in the mist on their beautiful, untamed home: Sable Island The position of Sable Island makes it incredibly foggy, especially on its shores. Here, three wild horse...
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2010s Minimalist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ice Hockey - Winter Sports on Frozen Lake by Snowy Mountain Landscape
Located in Brighton, GB
Ice Hockey - Winter Sports on Frozen Lake by Snowy Mountain Landscape by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Ice Hockey...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Ground Cloud - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Ground Cloud by Stuart Möller (Photo by Stuart Möller) Archival Pigment Prints signed and numbered by the artist. - Location of the signature : bottom right - Dimensions large 41...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dog Walkers in New York Snow Store
Located in Miami, FL
A heavy snow fall creating a fantasy world of shape in Manhattan. Single Yellow Taxi with lights on creates a counter point to the whites and soft grays ...
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2010s Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Slim Aarons) Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. Additional Informati...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Ski Jump (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Ski Jump (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) 1st October 1956. A skier jumping into the air. Additional I...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Landscape Photograph Tiger Nature Large Black White Infrared India Lake Trees
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh Untitled Infrared photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper 36" x 53" unframed (91cm x 135cm) 2017 Edition 1/10 *Should you wish the photograph to be ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Skier in Vermont, 1962 - Skier in Snow at Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont
Located in Brighton, GB
Skier in Vermont, 1962 - Skier in Snow at Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Skier in Vermont" i...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print

Aerial Miami Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Aerial Miami Beach 1972 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A helicopter carrying tourists hovers over the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, Florida, April 1972. ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Skiing in Vail Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiing in Vail 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964 unframed c type print ...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

House up in the Mountains (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
House up in the Mountains (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1235. Signat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Petrohan, Bolgaria (Snowy Evergreens with Dog)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Minimal Landscape, Black & White Photography, Sea Ice in the Arctic with Birds
Located in US
"Shimmer" Minimal landscape with sea ice, snow, and rocks with birds flying. The limited edition print series Northern Dreams is a tribute to one ...
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2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Hill Edge Tree, Shibecha, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition 1964: Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. Produced from the original transparency Certi...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Skiers At Verbier - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Skiers At Verbier Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Six wild horses moving swiftly across the shores of Sable Island
Located in US
Six wild horses moving swiftly across the shores of Sable Island In this first of its kind aerial drone shot, a band of wild horses runs across the empty shores of Sable Island The...
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2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Fog (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Fog (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Nu...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Golden storm By Justin Pumfrey
Located in London, GB
Golden storm By Justin Pumfrey Archival pigment print Paper size: 20 x 16" / 51 x 41 cm edition of 25 unframed note other print sizes and framing options are available, please e...
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2010s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Lonely Tree", landscape, black and white, winter, snow, New England, photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Lonely Tree” is part of her "Winter Trees" series documenting the beauty of New England in the winter. The 12 x 18 inch black and white photo with satin finish is ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Metal

Squaw Valley Snow, 1961 - Snowy Scene in Winter Landscape in California
Located in Brighton, GB
Squaw Valley Snow, 1961 - Snowy Scene in Winter Landscape in California by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition ...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Photography

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C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

'Nine Settlement Valley'. Minimal Abstract Botanical Nature Bamboo Blue White
Located in Penzance, GB
'Nine Settlement Valley' Original artwork, unframed ____________________ We are all the stories of the journeys that have come before: of the migrations and movements, of the free a...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Photogram

Vintage Pressed Flowers in Blue, Botanical Nordic Style, Traditional Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Details: + Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº1 + Year: 2021 + Edition Size: 20 + St...
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2010s Baroque Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Other Medium

Bob Fine
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist on recto, in the lower right corner of the image.
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1950s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

The Small Harbour - Vintage Photograph - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The small harbour  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1925. The photo depicts a picturesque corner of  the chinese city, Wuchow. The work is glued on cardboard. Total ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Helsinki, Finland
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
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Early 2000s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Slim Aarons) Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. Additional Informati...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Serve (Ghost Town) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Serve (Ghost Town) - 2021 Sketches of a downtown disappearing. 40x40cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Digital silver gelatin print based on the Polaroid. Signed on back wi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid, Silver Gelatin

Amboy Salt Flats (California Badlands) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Amboy Salt Flats (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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

Slim Aarons Estate Print - A Helping Hand 1955 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
A Helping Hand Former ski instructor Herman Ostermaier gives a helping hand to a member of the Junior Skiing Program in North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955. Paper size 40 x 40" inc...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Eagle Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club 1969 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969. unframed c type print printed 2023 16 x...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

A Skier in Vermont Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
A Skier in Vermont 1962 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A skier at the Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1962 unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 1...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lech Ice Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershorn. unfram...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing 1968 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper si...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiing In Seefeld Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Seefeld 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985. unframed c type print printed...
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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

And also the Trees - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'And also the Trees’ - 2017 - 21 x 20 cm, Edition 3/10, digital C-Print based on a reclaimed Polaroid negative. Numbered and signed on the back by the artist. Not mounted. Art...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Chairlift, Snowqualmie, Washington, USA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Skiing in Vail Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiing in Vail 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. unframed c type print p...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiing in Vail Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiing in Vail 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. unframed c type print...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiers in St Moritz Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiers in St Moritz 1963 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963. unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Snow Days
Located in Sante Fe, NM
With or without snow (and yes it's melting), it seems like we’ve had 350 snow days in a row. I have so much respect for the parents who have spent months upon months nonstop with th...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Snow Parfait Tree, Wakoto, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy 19th June 1954: Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore skiing in Glencoe, Scotland who has been nominated as one of six Picture Post 'Personality Girls'. She plays principal clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

White Landscape, Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sugarbush Skiing
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Skiers At Verbier' 1964: Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiers at Verbier, 1964 - Ski Sports in Swiss Alpine Snowy Mountain Range
Located in Brighton, GB
Skiers at Verbier, 1964 - Ski Sports in Swiss Alpine Snowy Mountain Range by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Skier...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Portrait D´Arbre no. 2, Prussian Blue Study, Cyanotype
Located in Berlin, DE
Cyanotype. Signed 'Lorin' in pencil lower right, numbered '1/8' lower left and with the blindstamp 'Atelier Gilles Lorin'. On Arches Platine.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Gstaad' Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Skiing In Gstaad' L-R; Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender prepare for a day on the slopes in Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1977 40 x 30" inches...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiing in Vail (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
Located in London, GB
Skiing in Vail (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) A group of skiers stands in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. Addition...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Atlantic City 1948 (Part 2)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ezo Spruce Trees, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'Skiing In Vail' *newly added* SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Located in London, GB
'Skiing In Vail' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print Gorgeous print measuring a Large 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm (printed on 20x24" paper size.) A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-type p...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

White Copse, Study 3, Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan. 2004
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential am...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Adrift #28
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Skiers At Verbier - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Skiers At Verbier Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershor...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Fiori di Prugno al Vento- Photograph by Vito Difilippo - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons, Lech Ice Bar (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Lech Ice Bar, 1960 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershorn. Estate st...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

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