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Stefanie Schneider Abstract 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
To Some Degree (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
To Some Degree (29 Palms, CA) - 2009 38x36cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist invento...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 1999 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inve...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Blue Space Dark - Planet of the Apes 6 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. ...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Fleeting (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fleeting (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label a...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Moonscape - Planet of the Apes 03 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moonscape - Planet of the Apes 03 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label a...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and C...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Clouds Above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Clouds above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signa...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature labe...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Day for Night - Planet of the Apes 01 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and C...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature ...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inve...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 20x65cm including the white frame. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid. C...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Burnout (Stage of Consciousness)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burnout (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition 1/10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 8455. Not mounted. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Sunset behind Layers (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset Behind Layers (Deconstructivism) - 2020 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 6199. Signature label and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Dreamscape (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Abstract, Polaroid, Expired, Photograph
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamscape (Wastelands), 2003 128x125cm Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. Artist inventory No. 1152.17. Not mounted. The se...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Summer Interlude II (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Summer Interlude II (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Art...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

The Unconscious Mind (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Desert, Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Unconscious Mind (29 Palms, CA) - 2021 127x228cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3965. Not m...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Jelly Fish - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, Ryan Gosling
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and the Jelly Fish'(Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Ar...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Impact (Wastelands) - 100x100cm, Polaroid, Contemporary, Abstract, Mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Impact - it all began quite simply I was very happy (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 5, 100x100cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1189.08. Mounted...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) Polaroid, 128x126cm, analog vintage print
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 128x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. (matte) Arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999 50x50cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 19888. N...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 50x50cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

The Silence (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Silence (Deconstructivism) - 2020 40x40cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 1903. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Ste...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004, 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Ar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color, New York, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - 2006 Edition of 5, 100x135cm installed, each piece is 30x29cm, 12 analog C-Prints, printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surface, b...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars - 2022 Edition of 10, 40x30cm, Archival Fine Art Paper. Artist inventory E004. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. 'Life on Mars' series is part of my ...
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2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Jelly Fish - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, Ryan Gosling
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and the Jelly Fish (Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006 128x125cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory Number 5501. Not mounted. ------------------------------------------------ A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. She also created the art for several dream sequences and the end credit sequence for the movie. “I never remember the details of a Stefanie Schneider image, just the whole. She treads a third path between reality and dream that connects the two and truly sparks my artistic, visual freedom.” (Marc Forster) Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13

 Photography Art Cinema. Revisited Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated. Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.

 Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Faded Memory (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Faded Memory (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 4791. Not...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching Edition of 10, 40x30cm, Archival C-Print. Artist inventory E007. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Life on Mars ...
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2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - Polaroid, Analog, Abstract, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20434....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Mirage (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mirage (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20428. Not ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Blue Sky (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Sky (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20432. No...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Stillness (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stillness (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20433. N...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Seeside (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Seeside (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20430. Not...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - Polaroid, Analog, Abstract, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20434....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Seeside (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Seeside (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20430. Not...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Stillness (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stillness (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20433. N...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Blue Sky (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Sky (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20432. No...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Mirage (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mirage (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20428. Not ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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Metal

Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) 40x30cm, Edition 2/10. Archival Fine art Print. Artist inventory #E001. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Life on Mars is...
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2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars - 2022 - Hatching Edition of 10, 40x30cm, Archival C-Print. Artist inventory E006. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. 'Life on Mars' series is part of my Desert Living Project, which encompasses all aspects of organic living including growing your own organic food, self sustainability and regarding the...
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2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999 50x50cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20451. N...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999, 98x97cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20451. No...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate....
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Midnight Sun (Life on Mars)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Midnight Sun (Life on Mars) - 2022 Edition of 10, 40x17cm, Archival C-Print. Artist inventory E020. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. ...
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2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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C Print, Color, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - 2022 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 218829. Signature label and Certificate...
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1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Strangers (Deconstructivism) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strangers (Deconstructive) - 2022 Edition of 10, 49x48cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 18894. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4600. Signat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

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

The Silence (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Silence (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 1903. Signatur...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Hallway I (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hallway I (Suburbia) - 2004 40x40cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print based, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive papter, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Signature...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 50x50cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Abstract - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abstract - 2020 Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1, 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame). Artist Inv. #23481. Signed on verso. Stefanie Schneider's ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Captain Nelson (29 Palms, CA) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century, Dream
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Captain Nelson (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 37x49x3.5cm, Edition 1/5. Artist Inventory No 4033.01. Analog C-Print, Hand-printed by the artist, mounted on a wooden box with matte UV-Prot...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Abstract Photography

Materials

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

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