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Item Ships From: California
Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - analog, vintage print
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
Category

1970s Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6754) - monochromatic desert photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms. AD6754 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence) 45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm edition of 8 + 2AP 30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm edition of 8 + 2AP limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature labels are 8x10 in size signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label __________________ About the artist Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles. __________________ Solo Exhibitions 2024 Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY 2023 Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Sometimes - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Sometimes' - 2019, 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL219-661. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6539) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - 2004 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Cer...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Home Duties (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Home Duties (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 inventor...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Nastasia with Gun' - signed, loose
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini Nastasia with Gun (High Desert) - 2019 1 Archival Color Photograph based on the Polaroid. Signed in front, not mounted. Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Autobahn - abstract birds eye view of freeway intersection traffic at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Autobahn by Frank Schott 42 x 42 inches / 107cm x 107cm signed edition of 7 30 x 30 inches / 76cm x 76cm signed edition of 25 48 x 48 inches / 122cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Stefanie Schneider Minis - 2 Minis from the Beachshoot
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
2 Stefanie Schneider's Minis from the Beachshoot: The Diva and the Boy signed on front, not mounted Lambda digital Color Photographs based on original expired Polaroid photographs P...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

A Room with a View - Strange Love
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'A Room with a View' (Strange Love) - 2010 20x20cm, Edition of 5, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, signature label and certificate, arti...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Madonna (Burned) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Madonna (Burned) - 1999 48x47cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No 334. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroid - Unique Pieces
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroids - Unique Piece, 2005 DECONSTRUCTIVISM, 2000 - present. About the narrative potential of images. each Polaroid 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) ...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Cloud Study VII - large scale photograph of dramatic cloudscapes in summer sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas and abstract sky scapes observations above the Pacific Ocean Cloud Study VII by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Star Wars C-3PO still life photograph of the original iconic
By Tom Schierlitz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Star Wars (C-3PO) by Tom Schierlitz still life photograph of the original iconic golden Star Wars humanoid robot 60 x 48 inches (152 x 122cm) edition of 7 signed 40 x 32 inches (1...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 Edition of 10, 20x30cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artis...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - 2004 48x46cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Cert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color 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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

In Bloom - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'In Bloom', 2020 Digital C-Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x25cm, Signature label and certificate. Not mount...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Cold Song - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This striking underwater fine art photograph captures a figure draped in flowing white fabric, suspended between worlds with vibrant red blossoms and yellow spherical elements. The r...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Freddie Mercury, Queen#2, Rock Photography by Jeffrey Mayer
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jeffrey Mayer captures one of the best front men in history, Freddie Mercury of Queen. Freddie sure knew how to put on a show... Starting his 50+ year career in the summer of 1966, ...
Category

1970s Performance California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lila Running (Stay) - featuring Naomi Watts - Polaroid, 21st Century
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 Sc...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Tricksy (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tricksy (Beachshoot) - 2005 featuring Radha Mitchell 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Boccia I (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia I (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Cam...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Seascape IV (Homage to Mark Rothko) - framed large format abstract photograph
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of large scale abstract photographs of muted color monochromatic water surfaces SEASCAPE IV by Frank Schott available in two edition sizes ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Giclée

Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday." Slim Aarons Poolside Party...
Category

1970s Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

The Getaway (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Getaway (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 23256. Signature label and...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Bryce Canyon National Park, Desert Red Rocks Landscape Color Photograph, Signed
Located in Soquel, CA
An epic desert landscape photograph of dramatic rock formations bathed in a glowing orange light in Southern Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park by David Benitez (Puerto Rico, Californ...
Category

1990s American Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007 Edition 2/5, each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm. 4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids. Ce...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

For What I’ve Lost (The Girl...) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
For What I’ve Lost (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by S...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Childhood Memories (Stay) - featuring Ryan Gosling- Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay) - 2006 - featuring Ryan Gosling- Polaroid 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inv...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Heart, Rock Photography Print by Jeffrey Mayer
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist: Jeffrey Mayer Limited Edition: Signed and hand numbered in the margin, archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a Baryta finish. Authorized worldwide release of 100 ...
Category

1990s Performance California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Aspen Study II - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study II by Frank Schott a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Mindscreen 10 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 10 - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. artist Inventory No. 244.04. Not m...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Bamboo Forest (6 glass panels) - abstract observation of iconic Japanese grove
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale abstract panoramic photograph of lush emerald green nature biotope, a highly detailed observation of the natural beauty of Japan's famous Arashiyama Bamboo Grove Bamboo Forest by Erik Pawassar 48 x 175 inches (122 x 444cm) six individual glass panels (48 x 29 inches / each) signed edition of 7 archival quality fine art pigment print “Frameless” acrylic glass mounting * artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ About the artist: Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Giclée

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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

She's gonna run like water through your hands - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
She's gonna run like water through your hands (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certific...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

29 Palms, CA - Analog, mounted, Polaroid, 20th Century, Contemporary, Landscape
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
29 Palms, CA - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the Artist based on the Polaroid. artist inventory number: 636.04. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

The Mountain (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Mountain (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

48x72in. Pink Jewel, Oregon Coast, Landscape Photography unframed C Print
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Highlighting and capturing the raw natural beauty of the Californian coast, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming landscapes. Showcasing the raw natural beauty of the Oregon Coast: 48...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

C Print

In Bloom - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Centur
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Bloom - 2021 40x50cm. Archival Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Signature label and certificate. Not mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Bourbon (Suburbia) featuring Louis Ferreira, analog, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bourbon (Suburbia) - 2004 Edition of 2/5, 60x80cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Artist Inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Immaculate Springs Set with Jacinda Barrett
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Immaculate Springs Set with Jacinda Barrett - 1998 Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 20x20cm, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist i...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Accident II (Stay) with Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Accident III (Stay) -2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5339. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Miss America - Sidewinder, 39x38cm, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Miss America (Sidewinder) - 2005 39x38cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signatur...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Ancient Bridge Views III (Stay)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ancient Bridge Views III (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2490. Not mounted. 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, the British shooting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Li(e)be (Stage of Consciousness) with Udo Kier - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
L(i)ebe (Stage of Consciousness) - from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 starring Udo Kier 75x90cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid....
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Side Effects (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Side Effects (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13303. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer. -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - 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 girl's journal. (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder 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 property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots 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) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Wave I - large format abstract liquidscape in azur and lapis blue color palette
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing large scale photographic capture of strikingly abstract water surface shimmering in soothing tones of cobalt, admiral, azur and lapis blue Wave I (Abstract) by Christian...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Her eyes...' - signed, loose
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini Her Eyes, the Color of the Sky (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 featuring Daisy McCrackin signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Wild Blood - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
There is no rules for luck. I was sure the new girl would need practice and practice - and was wrong. She was just perfect from the first second till the las...
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2010s Photorealist California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2021 50x50cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory Number 23820. 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...
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1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

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

Downtown LA - 21st century, Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Downtown LA (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005, 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 
 Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. 
...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Girl with Silver Bra (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl with Silver Bra (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Roy's (California Badlands) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roys (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10946. Not mounted. The w...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

"Drift 29" Landscape Photography 40" x 30" Edition of 5 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 29" Landscape Photography 40" x 30" Edition of 5 by Rowan Daly Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper Unframed - ships rolled in a tube DRIFT Behind the scenes of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Digital, Archival Pigment

Henry (Stay) - starring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, 21st Century
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 Sc...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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