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Art Subject: Weather
Bernard Myers (1925-2007) - Contemporary Oil, Trees by the Tow Path
Located in Corsham, GB
A sensitive landscape in oil by the artist Bernard Myers (1925-2007). Signed with initials to the lower right. On paper.
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Salute, Modern Lithograph by Lloyd Lozes Goff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lloyd Lozes Goff, American (1918 - 1982) - Salute, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 19 x 25 inches, Size: 23 in. x...
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1970s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #4
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing, free shipping and 14-day returns. Yuji Obata Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #4, 2005 - 2006 19 x 13 inch archival pigment print Edition 3 of 10 Signed and editioned on verso *Please note there is some wear and tear on the frame as noted in the additional images. The listing is priced accordingly. If you would like the piece to be reframed please contact us and we will provide a discounted rate with our framer here in New York or at our Los Angeles location. Yuji Obata was born in Japan in 1962. He attended the Nihon University College of Art and currently resides in Tokyo. He has won numerous photography prizes in Japan, and his work was first shown outside of Japan in 2010 with Danziger Projects at Pulse Miami. In 2003, Obata was compelled to photograph winter scenes in Japan as he stood in front of Pieter Bruegel's painting "The Hunters in the Snow" in Vienna's Museum of Art History. Upon returning to Japan, he traveled to the country's northernmost island, Hokkaidō, known for its cold and snowy winters. As he worked there photographing ice skaters at a middle school rink and a local speed skating team, his enchantment with images of winter deepened. Traveling around different regions of the island in winter, he began noticing the varied qualities of the snow itself, and finally became fascinated with the unique challenge of photographing snowflakes. Obata drew inspiration from the story and works of W.A. Bentley, an American farmer and photographer who adapted a camera and microscope to photograph a single snow crystal for the first time in 1885. Bentley went on to photograph more than 5,000 snowflakes in his lifetime, and his technique was so successful that it continues to be used today. Like Bentley, Obata was obsessed with the challenge of doing something no one had done before – in his case photographing snowflakes in freefall rather than on a flat surface without digital or any other manipulation. It took Obata five years to achieve but his breakthrough resulted in the capture of pictures that allow the snowflakes to relate to each other in space and size, creating dynamic compositions and scenes. Obata chose the location to shoot the series, in the mountains of Hokkaidō, based on its history as the place where Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya did research that led to his invention of artificial snow. His most recent book "Wintertale" gathers his photographs of winter...
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Early 2000s Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Minimal, Abstract Image of Snow and Clouds in the Arctic
Located in US
"Cathedral of Snow" Organic snow formations against a dark sky with whispy clouds. The limited edition print series Northern Dreams is a tribute to one of the most spectacular plac...
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2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry Watching Athena Dance (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Art Deco ott.b Miami Beach Black and White Architectural landscape Photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The 'Miami Skin Series' it’s not a traditional collection of photos about the architecture of Miami and Miami Beach. It’s rather a quick journey between its own skin from the Art Dec...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Stand in the Shadows
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mid Century French Illustration Leafs On Purple Paper Wallpaper Design
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil Pastel

British Impressionist Watercolor of Misty Reflection with Spire Silhouette
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Misty Reflection with Spire Silhouette by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11 x...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Koltur Island Faroe Islands Monochrome Seascape Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Koltur Island Study 1, Faroe Islands - no. 21305 Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed and number...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Afterglow (Window, Skyscape, Warm, Bluesy, Vibrant, Dreamy, ~29% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Annieo Klaas Afterglow 2024 Oil on Canvas 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 30.48 cm) Signed lower right COA provided *On stretcher frame - gallery wrapped - ready to hang Annieo Klaas’s Clo...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

British Watercolor of a Countryside Road Under Dramatic Clouds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Watercolor of a Countryside Road Under Dramatic Clouds By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11.25 x 15.25 in...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Parliament in autumn No.3 - abstract photography, London, Limited edition 20
Located in London, GB
Reimagining the iconic silhouette of the Westminster Parliament through the lens of abstraction and atmosphere. Cloaked in an autumnal haze, the architectural presence dissolves into...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

New York Picnic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic 1952 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. 1952 unframed c type ...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pair of serigraphs, Twin Lake and Lake View
Located in San Francisco, CA
These artwork titled "Twin Lake and Lake view" 1986 are two original color serigraphs on different papers by American artist Virgil Trasher b.1943. One is ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Cortina D'Ampezzo No.2- black and white mountain photography, limited edition 10
Located in London, GB
Cortina D'Ampezzo No.2, 2024 It is a black and white film photograph of Dolomite mountains, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all the processing and pri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée

British Impressionist Watercolor of Riverside with Church Spire in Mist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Riverside with Church Spire in Mist By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11.25 x...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Misty River Scene with a Distant Spire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Misty River Scene with a Distant Spire By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

MORNING IN YOSEMITE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 - 1974) MORNING IN YOSEMITE c 1938 Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Plate size 13 3/8 x 9 3/4". Sheet 16 x 11 1/8" with deckle edges. Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Ligurian glow - Italian coast lanscape photography, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Ligurian glow' Tellaro, Italy 2024 Limited edition of 20. Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to withsta...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Giclée

Black Mountains, long exposure, black and white photography, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Wild Atlantic coast of Scotland with the big mountains in the background. Archival pigment ink print, editi...
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2010s Abstract Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Baker's Fen, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire - landscape nature photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Baker's Fen, nature photograph by Richard Heeps taken when documenting Wicken Fen. Richard has a love for the unique Fenland landscape around his Cam...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

New York Picnic 1952 - Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic 1952 - Slim Aarons A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. 1952 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Páramo Chingaza, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Miguel Winograd's work explores the relationship between people and their environment, narratives of social conflict, and the dense interconnections of the Colombian landscape. His w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

BEFORE THE STORM 2 - Contemporary Nature Oil Pastel Painting, Warm Tones, Light
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

British Watercolor of a Riverside Silhouette with Reflections and a Swan
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Watercolor of a Riverside Silhouette with Reflections and a Swan By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11.25 ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 50x49cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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

A lone white horse plays beneath a might Icelandic waterfall
Located in US
A lone white horse plays beneath a might Icelandic waterfall A lone white horse enjoys a moment to himself below a mighty waterfall. He appears to be playing, almost invigorated by ...
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2010s Minimalist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Silvery Dreams
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this painting, I dove into the elusive interplay of light and shadow cast by the full moon over a dense forest. I chose oils to capture the mist's softness as it weaves t...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seven Moons
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Foggy day, Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Foggy Day Size: 17.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'...
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2010s Academic Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Still Imagined" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Still Imagined" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape with leafless trees and saplings together in the dark Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who uses black and white paint to explore the perception of space and beauty. Carpenter's formal education is in science - he holds a MS in Neuroscience from UCSD and a BS in Psychobiology from UCLA - and he brings this background into service when making art. His paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and aesthetics, examining among other things how the depiction of light can impart realism and convey emotion. Like his paintings bridging art and science, Carpenter's career has similarly straddled the two fields, and he has taught subjects ranging from neuroscience and environmental science to photography and painting. Artist Statement As a painter, I am particularly interested in how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. Painting, as with any visual art, is obviously dependent on light. But painting can also have a more specific connection in that the accurate depiction of light is crucial for achieving realism. Realism in paintings largely arises from the portrayal of depth - perceiving a painting as being realistic is equivalent to seeing its subject as existing in more than just the two dimensions of the picture plane - and one of the mechanisms by which humans perceive depth is through lighting cues. Light creates features such as shading, shadow, and contrast that tell us about the three-dimensional arrangement of our surroundings, and artists often use these features to impart realism to paintings. Light also factors in to the emotional impact of paintings. The differential illumination of our surroundings can evoke different moods, as evidenced by the influence sunsets, candlelight, and darkness can have on us. Such effectssuggest that our perception of light could be tied to primitive instincts, with light signaling factors such as shelter, nightfall, and warmth, which were once crucial for survival. The depiction of light in paintings...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Harbor, Seascape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Seascape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 St...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seascape VII - large format photograph of cloud formations and reflecting sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of dramatic cloud formations and reflecting sea SEASCAPE VII by Frank Schott 58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm ) signed edition of 7 48 x 48 inches ( 12...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Archival ...

Frozen beach - black and white polaroid photography, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Frozen beach' Neringa, Lithuania 2023 A photograph captured with a Polaroid camera that showcases the winter landscape of Lithuania in black and white. Printed on the finest arc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Polaroid

Reflections, Seascape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Seascape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 St...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a 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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