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Art Subject: Car
King Pteranodon (Americana, Midwest, Classic, Iconic, Car, Barn, ~25% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shirley Harryman King Pteranodon Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 11 x 11 inches Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 inches Signed: On Label COA provided *White gallery frame with st...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Paris Cars from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Parked In Paris from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Printed 2022 Archival pigment print Framing and size options available - Please enquire About: Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”. After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Street Study of Manhattan Henge Sunshine New York City by English Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
This unique original painting is a study of 42nd Street at Manhattan Henge in New York City, by English Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art ...
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2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paint, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board

Leaving (Sidewinder), triptych - analog, vintage hand-print, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving (Sidewinder), triptych - 2005, Edition 2/5, 38x37cm each, (installed with gaps 38x125cm). 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, bas...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Stefanie Schneider Minis - Saigon - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis Saigon (Stranger than Paradise), 2003 Signed and signature brand on verso. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Sandwiched in between Ple...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Rio de Janeiro View - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rio de Janeiro View is a Vintage b/w Photograph, realized in the 1960s. Good conditions. Stamped on the rear.
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger
Located in London, GB
"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger Taxis line up out side of the Cotton Club at Broadway and 48th Street circa 1938 in New York City, New York...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Painting of Chrysler Building New York City by Collectible British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Painting of the Chrysler Building, New York City, by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 36 x 24 inches Frame measures 43 x 31 inches Angela Wak...
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2010s Post-Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Linen, Oil, Gesso

Paris Nights II from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Nights II from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Printed 2022 Archival pigment print Framing and size options avai...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Midtown Stillife
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The picture is a part of photographs which Kallay done in 1965 for a German book publisher about NYC.
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Model T and Garage, Daggett, California - Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Model T and Garage' was taken in the small historic town of Daggett in the Mojave Desert on Route 66. This artwork is part of Richard Heeps' 'Dream in Colour' series, which document...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

'55 Oldsmobile 88, Hemsby, Norfolk - Classic Car Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
1955 Oldsmobile 88, a yellow classic American car taken outside the Mirage in Hemsby Norfolk. Photograph from Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' series. This artwork is a limited edition of...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Mind Blowing (vintage car surrealist oil painting grey monochrome dessert cake)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Two photographic motifs, which can by no means fit together in real life, result in a coherent and at the same time completely absurd image on the painting level. Something that has happened, you can see things clearly in front of you and still do not understand how often in real life what it all means. keywords; americana, surrealism, rasberry cake, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Night Tripper (Palisades No.2) - Road landscape painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Night driving road scene by Edie Nadelhaft - oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus on the visual nuances and psychological ambi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The box
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed, already stretched and r...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cilento, Italy (Dog and Pile of Tires)
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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Suburbia II - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Suburbia II - 2004 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20955.01. This project "S...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Mid 20th C. Irish Artist Watercolor Painting - Vigo Spain Coastal Landscape Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Inscribed verso, Vigo Size 11 x 15 inches Superb original watercolour painting by the well listed and popular Irish painter, Frank Forty (1902-1996). The painting came from a priv...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker
By Eldon Dedini
Located in Soquel, CA
Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker An original watercolor illustration for The New Yorker...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Old days Photo - Mountain - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Mountain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Henry Ford with a Prototype Car
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white historical capture of the legendary Henry Ford with an early prototype car. Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnat...
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1910s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Johnny Carson Smiling in Car
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1961 in Hollywood, California: American TV show host Johny Carson gets into a convertible sports car in Hollywood. Johnny Carson was an American television host, comedian, and...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Donald O’Conner Fixing Car
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1962 in Hollywood, California: American actor Donald O’Conner inspects the rear of his classic Morgan sports car. Donald O'Conner was an American dance...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dr Decarie - Archival fine art print, Black white, Montreal, Phillips square
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m² paper of a photograph of a street corner in Montreal cerca Valentin's day 1925 entitled ' Dr Decarie ' Unframed ...
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1920s Academic Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

"New York City Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), " Leon Dolice, East River, Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1930-40 Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York The romantic b...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

pink cadillac ( 60"x 48" / 152 x 122 cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
pink cadillac by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches ( 152 x 122 cm ) edition of 7 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on certi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Cadillac at the Drive-In, Goodwood - Vintage Lifestyle Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vintage Americana inspired Drive-In movie theatre, from the glamorous Goodwood Revival, featuring a classic Cadillac and Marilyn Monroe on the big sc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

"Churchill In Richmond Park" by Terry Fincher
Located in London, GB
"Churchill In Richmond Park" by Terry Fincher British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) feeds the deer in Richmond Park, accompanie...
Category

1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Chevy at the Diner, Bisbee, Arizona - American Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in 2001 but just released, printed by Richard in his darkroom for the first time last year. This cinematic photograph featuring a vintage yellow chevy parked up at an Am...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Challenger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Challenger" is an original painting on canvas by James Oliver measuring 40in x 60in. James Oliver is a painter whose precise visual language pushes the tradition of twentieth century abstraction into a contemporary context. Oliver is a conceptually driven formalist whose work is inspired by his dreams and emotional states, which he abstracts into an undetermined and subjective viewing experience by emphasizing line, color, and form. Even as Oliver turns to a figurative practice in recent series, rendering cultural icons like chopper bikes, Pontiac Firebirds, and his childhood poodle in detailed line drawings, these representations similarly evoke broadly accessible affects abstracted from his mental landscape. Born in Upstate New York, raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, son of an advertising executive, Oliver was exposed from a young age to visual art from its most commercial applications to more visceral exponential lives. "The Challenger is a classic muscle car. Knowing that I have been working on a series of muscle car paintings...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Navy or Coast Guard 1930s Pursuit Boat Galveston Texas Artist Texas Coast
Located in San Antonio, TX
Paul Schumann 1876-1946 Galveston Artist Image Size: 9 x 12 Frame Size: 12.5 x 15.5 Medium: Oil on Board Circa 1930s "Navy or Coast Guard Boat At Sea" Paul Schumann 1876-1946 Galveston Artist Image Size: 8 x 12.75 Frame Size: 13 x 17.5 Medium: Oil New Mexico Biography Paul Schumann 1876-1946 Paul R. Schumann Paul Richard Schumann (December 13, 1876 – April 29, 1946) was a Texas impressionist seascape painter who has been called the Gulf Coast counterpart of Winslow Homer. Education and personal life Paul R. Schumann was born in Reichersdorf in the German state of Saxony in 1876, one of four children of Albert F. Schumann and Mina Clara Zincke. Only he and his brother Albert Otto survived infancy. The family emigrated to the United States in 1879 and settled in Galveston, Texas, where he lived until his death. Schumann evinced an early interest in art and received encouragement from the superintendent of the Galveston Public Schools. He studied painting with local painter Julius Stockfleth...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oldsmobile (Americana, Rusty, Classic Car, Timeless Ride, 30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy Oldsmobile (Americana, Rusty, Classic Car, Timeless Ride) 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag 315gsm Size: 24 x 24 in...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Fiat Lux, Roma 1962 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP : Fiat Lux. Religiously parked under the watchful gaze of the Blessed Virgin, the ca...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

God is Love?
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'God is Love?', 2017, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificat...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

"Monza Grand Prix" by David Lees
Located in London, GB
"Monza Grand Prix" by David Lees British racing champion Stirling Moss at the Monza Grand Prix in Italy, September 1954. Original Publication : Pictu...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Art Deco City Scene with Motor Car print by Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Landscape Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Burj Khalifa, Skysraper, Mega City, Dubai, black and white cityscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Boats and Fish
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this vibrant interplay of acrylic and oil, I've crafted a serene yet lively impressionistic depiction. Each stroke embodies the rhythms of the sea, while colorful boats dance on t...
Category

2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Heavyweight
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Heavyweight" is an original painting on canvas by James Oliver measuring 48in x 48in. James Oliver is a painter whose precise visual language pushes the tradition of twentieth cent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Graphite

Barneys NY
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, limited editions.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Black and White

'55 Oldsmobile 88, Hemsby, Norfolk - Classic Car Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
1955 Oldsmobile 88, a yellow classic American car taken outside the Mirage in Hemsby Norfolk. Photograph from Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' series. This artwork is a limited edition of...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Marion Kramer spectacular 1930s old town scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Marion Kramer spectacular 1930s old town Depicting, vintage truck, Coca-Cola sign, regionalist painting Oil on canvas 32.5 x 42 framed, 27 x 35.5 unframed
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1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Self' part of the series 'Hands down' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label with certificate. ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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

Modern City Scape Moscow Church in Gouache
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3989 Gouache painting on paper of a church in Moscow Set in a wood frame under glass
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1970s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

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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