Stefanie Schneider Photography
German, b. 1968
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Troubled Henry (Stay) - with Ryan Gosling - 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Troubled Henry (Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 5091.
Not...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Light (Sidewinder) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Light (Sidewinder) - 2008
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #3079
Not mounted.
Stefanie S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hidden Valley (Till Death Do Us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hidden Valley (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
78x77cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Signature label and Certificate.
artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color Pencil, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Max in front of Motel (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Max in front of Motel' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999,
20x20cm,
Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inv...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider 2 Polaroid sized Minis - 'Heavenly Falls' - signed, loose
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Caitlin aka Jane Bond & Miss Moneypenny with Beach Ball (Heavenly Falls) - 2005
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Bishop, CA (Strange Love) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bishop, CA (Strange Love) diptych - 2005
2 Archival C-Prints, based on two Polaroids.
40x105 installed, 40x50cm each.
Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 9930.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
On The Run (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On The Run (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 23024.
Signature label and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sam, Interior Hospital (Stay) featuring Ewan McGregor - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sam, Interior Hospital (Stay) featuring Ewan McGregor - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brooklyn Bridge - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 250...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression) - 2004
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Prints based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Badlands - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century, Landscape, Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'California Badlands III' (California Badlands), 2016, 20x24cm,
Edition 9/10,
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 19333.16
not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Day (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Day (Wastelands) - 2003
38x37cm,
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 837.
Signature label and c...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Zabriskie Point - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Zabriskie Point (Stranger than Paradise) - 6 pieces - 2003
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
20x20cm each, together with gaps 45x70cm.
6 archiva...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Without You (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Without You (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 934.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up.
That’s when the shooting started…
Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila.
Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty.
She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy.
That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brooklyn Bridge 04 (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge 04 (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 1566.
Not mounted.
St...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brooklyn Bridge 08 (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge 08 (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 1570.
Not mounted.
St...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mayfair Lane, #02 (The last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mayfair Lane, #02 (The last Picture Show), 2004,
58x56cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid,
signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hidden Valley (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hidden Valley (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1992.
Signature label a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 2314.
No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fountain Head (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fountain Head (Stay) - 2006
featuring Ryan Gosling
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5250
No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Back Alley (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Back Alley (Stay) 2008
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5111
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneid...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Olancha) - Stranger than Paradise - analog C-Print based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Olancha) - 2006
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Beach Date (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Highway One (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 201.
Not ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Time Traveller (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Time Traveller (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
After (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 18799.
Signature label and Certi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hans (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hans (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory # 7...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hell (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hell (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 1573.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneid...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lifeguard (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lifeguard (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #499.
Not mou...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Seagull (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Seagull (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 197.
Not moun...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brooklyn Bridge - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge - Henry's Memory Sequence (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 250...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Frenzy - Sidewinder
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frenzy (Sidewinder) - 2005
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
not mounted,
Signature label and Certificate
artist Inventory Nr. 3048.
In Stefanie Schneider's...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Train tracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Running in front of Church (Sidewinder) 4 pieces based on 4 Polaroids, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Running in Front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2005
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
4 pieces, 82x101 each, installed including gaps 170x210cm.
4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Metal
A Woman (Musica Poetica)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Woman (Musica Poetica) - 1997
Edition 1/10,
44x59cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
There is no Solution (Till Death do Us part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
There is no Solution (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girl in Motel (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl in Motel (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist invent...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Airstream (29 Palms, CA) - signed on back, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Airstream' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid
Polaroid sized open Editions 1...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
After the Storm (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After the Storm (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 206.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Genial (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Genial (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory Number 269...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blurry and Hot - Sidewinder
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blurry and Hot (Sidewinder) - 2005
128x125cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Metal
$4,550 Sale Price
30% Off
Into Eternity (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into Eternity (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 893.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up.
That’s when the shooting started…
Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila.
Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty.
She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy.
That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lighting Up (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lighting Up (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 22991.
Signature label and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jack's (Sidewinder), analog, 100x98cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jack's (Sidewinder) 2005
100x98cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$2,700 Sale Price
40% Off
Saigon - Red Hot Chili Peppers Desecration Smile - Anthony Kiedes Collection
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Saigon - 2003
50x49cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 463.
Signature label and Certificate.
This piece has been used by the RED HOT C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reload! (Wastelands) - mounted - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reload! - I changed my mind (Wastelands) - 2003
Edition 2/5,
57x56cm,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist invent...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - super-8, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005
20x57cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print based on the Super-8 footage.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory No ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cloudless Heavens (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cloudless Heavens (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Star Link (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Star Link (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1194.
Signature label and Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunflower (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate ...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lonely Longing (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lonely Longing (29 palms, CA) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 16639.
Not mounted.
In Stefanie Schneider's evocative piece "Her Last Call," she presents a poignant scene featuring the talented actor Heather Megan Christie. The composition centers around a captivating image of Christie holding a red rotary phone...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Valley (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Valley - (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1233.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Published in: WASTELANDS, published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph)
Exhibited:
Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007), Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) (2012)
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Last Season II (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Season II - so I walked away from my Valley (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist invento...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
House up in the Mountains (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - 20x20cm each, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
20x19.5cm each.
2 archival C-Prints, based on the 2 Polaroids.
Artist inventory Numb...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Metal
Green Chair - 29 Palms, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Green Chair (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition of 10,
58x56cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper
not mounted,
based on the Polaroid
Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,680 Sale Price
40% Off
Athena and Henry (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling and Elizabeth Reaser
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Cyclone (Stay) - based on the Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Cyclone (Stay), 2006
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Sandwiched in between Plexiglass (thickn...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
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