Stefanie Schneider Portrait 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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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Lollipop I (Beachshoot) starring Radha Mitchell - framed, analog, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lollipop (Beachshoot) - 2005
80x80cm,
Edition 1/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Under glass with a white woode...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
First Steps (Burned) - Self Portrait - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
First Steps (Burned) - Self Portrait - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 3612.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Genie (Stage of Consciosness) featuring Udo Kier - Polaroid, Analog, Contemporar
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Genie (29 Palms, CA) - 2008
Edition of 5,
75x93cm
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection,
Signed on verso, artist Inventory No. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Max - Oxana's 30th Birthday
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
30x30cm,
sold out Edition of 4, Artist Proof 2/2,
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and signed in front,
artist Inven...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Point of no Return (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Point of no Return (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
48x58cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19627.02.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Untitled' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Immaculate Springs) - 1998
58x57cm
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on her expired original Polaroid.
Signature Label ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Picking up the Pieces (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Picking Up the Pieces (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
Edition of 10,
58x57cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
The Party is over (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Party is over (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
50x49cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Making out in Car - Long Shot (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Making out in Car' - Long Shot (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 1/2.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ensign Broderick I (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ensign Broderick I (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
100x120cm,
Edition 3/5.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Cer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sam (Stay) - starring Ewan McGregor
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Time stopped (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Time stopped (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9303.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Stranger than Paradise II - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stranger than Paradise II - 2005
128 x 125 cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper
based on a Polaroid, signed on Verso with Cert...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Max - Oxana's 30th Birthday
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
30x30cm,
sold out Edition of 4, Artist Proof 2/2,
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and signed in front,
artist Inventory Nr. 4687.10
Not mounted.
Schneider harnesses the unpredictable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film, where bursts of color erupt across the surface, destabilizing the photograph's traditional allegiance to reality. These vivid distortions draw her characters into ethereal, trance-like dreamscapes. Like fleeting sequences from a vintage road movie, Schneider’s images shimmer with a transitory quality, dissolving before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Their ephemeral essence is conveyed through subtle gestures and enigmatic motives. Refusing to yield to the constraints of reality, Schneider’s work keeps alive a delicate interplay of dream, desire, fact, and fiction, blurring the boundaries between them with poetic ambiguity.
Stefanie Schneider’s work echoes the heart of American art, channeling the cinematic nostalgia of Ed Ruscha’s roadscapes, the stark sensuality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the haunting solitude of Edward Hopper’s paintings...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Oxana (Stage of Consciousness) - part of the 29 Palms, CA project - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oxana (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007,
38x47cm, Edition of 2/30,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 3048.18.
Not mounted.
St...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Princess' Life - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Princess' Life (High Desert) - 2019
Edition 1/10, 20x20cm.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 22182
Not mounted.
Stefan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Badwater (Memories of Green)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Badwater (Memories of Green) - 2003
Edition of 5,
4 pieces 119x121cm installed, 58x56cm each.
4 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 Polaroids.
Signature ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The River (Fairytales) - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The River (Fairytales) - 2006
Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1,
8.8 x 7.5 cm (image area)
10.6 x 8.6 cm ( including white Polaroid frame)
Artist Inv. #23497.
Signed on verso.
Not moun...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 490...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Unknown Girl 01 - Street Portraits (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Unknown Girl 01 - Street Portraits (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
Edition of 10,
40x40cm.
Archival Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Invento...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Shotgun Wedding (Haley and the Birds) - Contemporary, Polaroid, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shotgun Wedding (Haley and the Birds) - 2013,
60x70cm,
Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper (matte),
based on the Polaroid.
Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
North Shore Yacht Club II (Back in the 80's)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
North Shore Yacht Club II (Back in the 80's) - 1999
48x46cm,
Edition of 10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Bloody Clown' from the movie Immaculate Springs
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Bloody Clown' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
Edition of 5,
58x56cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Homestead (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homestead (Till Death do us Part) - 2016
40x40cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 9707.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lone Pine Motel (from Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lone Pine Motel (from Last Picture Show) - 2009
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha doing her Nails by the Pool
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Radha doing her Nails by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
38x36cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory Nr. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Changes (Wastelands) - Polaroid, Expired. Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Changes (Wastelands), 2003
Edition of 1/10, 38x37cm,
digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No 1178.01
Not mounted.
Offered is a ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Beachshoot) - Polaroid - featuring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1456.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Running rings around the moon (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Running rings around the moon (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
50x60cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 195...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Fabric of the Mind (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Fabric of the Mind I (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mayfair Lane, #03 (The last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mayfair Lane, #03 (The last Picture Show) - 2004
58x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid,
Signatu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Center - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Center (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10,
58x56cm
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
Edition 1/5,
58x57cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid.
Artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
'Penelope and Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope and Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 -
Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature Label and Ce...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Dance (Wastelands) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Dance (Wastelands),
Edition 1/5, 128x125 cm, 2003.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - based on a Polaroid Original
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Subliminal (Stage of Consciousness)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Subliminal (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007,
20x24cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Felix and Dominique (California Blue Screen) - analog, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Felix and Dominique (California Blue Screen) - 1997
44x59cm,
sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Artist In...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Hacienda Mobile Park (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hacienda Mobile Park (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 13866.
Not mounted.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer .
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girls journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed
photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film.
“There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal.
The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film.
Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck, if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Beachshoot) - Polaroid - featuring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1456.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
48x46cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dominique and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dominique and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
38x48cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid
Not mounted,
Signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory N...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Red Desert (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, self-portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Red Desert (Stranger than Paradise) - 2006,
38x37cm.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inven...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Bike Biscuits riding in the Folly of Illusions (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Bike Biscuits riding in the Folly of Illusions (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Leaving in a jet plane (29 Palms, CA) - diptych
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving in a Jet Plane (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 2005
38x36cm each, installed 38x80cm.
sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2.
2 Archival C-Prints, hand printed by the artist, ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memories (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lioness (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lioness (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
20x24cm,
Edition 9/10.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19578.
Not mounted.
Stefa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper
A beautiful Day - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Woman
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Beautiful Day (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2007,
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic 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 the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Eavesdroppings (29 Palms, CA) - Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid, Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Eavesdropping' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition of 10,
50x50cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist inventory No. 18257.
Not mounted.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Stefanie Schneider Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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