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Item Ships From: California
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

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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Mad Max (Burning Man), 21st Century, Landscape Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Mad Max II' (Burning Man) Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2016, Color-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. unmounted Abou...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Her Own Universe - underwater nude photo acrylic print 29x48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A naked woman floats in space illuminated with shimmering stars and saturated swirling gasses of solar systems. Similar to the geometric eroticism of Picasso, with color fields and b...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment

Nastasia with Gun - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nastasia with Gun (High Desert) - 2019 Edition 1/10, 50x50cm, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: A German...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Backyard Memories (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Backyard Memories (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Cer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color 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. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Slash, Rock and Roll Print by Jeffrey Mayer
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic image of Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash shot in 1993 at the LA Sports Arena during a guest appearance at a Billy Joel Concert. Artist: Jeffrey Mayer Limited Edition: Signed a...
Category

1990s Performance California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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...
Category

2010s 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

Capri no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Large-scale photographer Troy House celebrates people’s primordial attraction to the beach. He travels the world capturing iconic, breathtaking scenes – often from a bird’s-eye view ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Henry (Stay) - with Ryan Gosling - 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 38x36cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival 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

Untitled (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Suburbia) - 2004 featuring actress Radha Mitchell 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Signed on verso with Certificate...
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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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Spartan Trailers (American Depression) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Airstream Trailers (American Depression) - 2017 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color 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. Ar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - Polaroid, Jaguar, vintage, contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - 2021 24x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
Category

1990s 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Digital, Archival Pigment

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

The Girl I (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Girl III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surface, base...
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2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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

Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica
By Stuart Klipper
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Stuart Klipper (American, 1941- ) Title: Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica Year: 1989 Medium: C Print (Chromogenic print) Size: 12 x 38 inches image, 16 x 44 inches sheet, 18 x 45 inches matted. Unframed Signature: Signed, titled, dated, artist’s stamp on reverse Condition: Very good This photograph depicts the landmark volcano Vulcan Arunal in Costa Rica. It is a chromogenic print, also called a C-print on Kodak paper. It was done in 1989 when Klipper visited Costa Rica. He said this about the photographs that came from that experience: “- In the Rain Forest: The Specifications of Life, photographs made deep inside the rain forest preserves of Costa Rica; these forests are essential to planetary health and threatened everywhere; I wanted to ‘swim’ in the densest soup of DNA anywhere. [1989]” The photograph is in very good condition. The mat is in very good condition. Stuart Klipper was born in the Bronx in 1941. He then lived in Stockholm, Sweden, moved to Minneapolis in 1970 and currently resides there. He has made six visits to Antarctica to photograph, and has also worked in Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Alaska and Lapland (in the area irradiated by the Chernobyl disaster). Other major forays have taken him across Northern Australia; the deserts of Israel and Sinai; the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego; and Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He has logged many thousands of miles at sea, photographing on all of the Earth's oceans... and seas. For over 30 years, he has made photographs in all 50 states, distilling and crystallizing the defining characteristics of American regions. Other undertakings include extensively photographing the First World War cemeteries and memorials of the Western Front, major physics and astronomy research installations throughout the U.S. and the Anasazi ruins of the Southwest. His photographs have been exhibited in, and collected by, major museums in the U.S. and overseas; foremost, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, The Jewish Museum, the Israel Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Kunsthalle Bonn and the Moderna Museet. He has been the recipient of several major grants, including two each from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bush Foundation, and three each from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a recipient of the U.S. Navy's Antarctic Service Medal. He was also visiting professor, Art Department, Colorado College, 1978 to 2008. Solo exhibitions • Disparate Geographies, Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, 1998. • Sixteen polar photographs, Arktis -Antarktis, the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic, Bonn, Germany. 1998 • Cardinal Points, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. (Photographs from polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland, the tropical rain forests, the desert regions of Israel and the Sinai, the agricultural Great Plains)-- an exhibition catalogue was published. 1998 • At Sea Near the Poles, at the Spencer Gallery, Wickford, R.I. 1999 • Antarctica 99/00, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, 2000 • Selected Antarctic Work, Berler Gallery, Washington D.C., 2001 (Also shown in Denver and Christchurch, N.Z. • Selected American photographs, The Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va., 2001 • Photographs from the Arctic and Antarctica, Smith-Dean Gallery, Phila., PA, 2001 • Wyoming, Univ. of Wyoming Museum Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2001/02 • In the Australian Outback, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2002 • The United States, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY, 2002 • Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback of the Top End of Australia, Gallery 360, Mpls.,2002 • Portraits about Pakistan, 1987, Icebox Gallery, Mpls., 2002 • Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica’s First Highway, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 2002 • The Louisiana Purchase, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis & Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, 2003 • Selected photographs, Medtronics Corp. corporate headquarters, Minneapolis, 2006 • Antarctica, Electrolift Artworks, Minneapolis, Minn. 2006 (+ other venues) • 20 Years of photographing Louisiana, The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, 2008 • Antarctic Photographs, City Museum of Charleston, S.C., 2009 • Local Places – Remote Terrains, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2009 • The Dead Sea Region, Israel, The Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, 2010 Group exhibitions • Photography of New York City, Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1998 • Sea Change, The Center for Creative Photography, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. (An eponymous book was published in conjunction with the exhibition and is in national distribution), 1998/99 • American farms and farming, Candace Perish Gallery, Katonah, NY. (Traveled to Washington D. C.), 1998/99 • Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, NYC. 1999 • Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land, St, Olaf & Carleton Colleges, Northfield, Minn., 1999 • The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke, Dorsky Gallery, N.Y.C. 1999 • An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection ( + catalogue), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999 • Aqua, Gallerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France 1999 • Restructuring the Prairie, Grinnell College, 1999 • The Mural as Muse, Deutsches Bank Gallery, NYC, 2000 • earth sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2000 • Western Panoramas, Huntington Museum, Sta. Barbara, CA, 2001 • I Love New York (W. T. C benefit), NYC, 2001 • Melodrama, inaugural show, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain, 2002 • Contemporary Desert Photography...
Category

1980s Naturalistic California - Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Blue Cadillac (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Cadillac, Vintage, 20th Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Cadillac (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 68x90cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #607....
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20th Century Contemporary California - Color 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 California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Winchester (Wastelands) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Winchester (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 5, 57x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, certificate and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Childhood Memories (Paris), analog, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Paris) - 1995 Edition of 5, 50x60cm including white borders. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist and based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certif...
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Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Indian Summer II (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Indian Summer II (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on a Polaroid, signature label and certificate, Artist Inventory 878.11. Not mounted Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. 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. “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project” now Polaroid) Exhibitions Selected (selected) 2018 Participation Bombay Beach Biennale, Bombay Beach, USA (G) March Available to All, Rough Play Projects - Site Specific, Joshou Tree, USA (G) curated by Deborah Martin with Adam Berg, Doron Gazit, Kellan Barnebey, Chris Sanchez, Aili Schmelzt 2017 BLICKFELD Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
 Rosegallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (G) Magie des Moments, Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G) 2016 
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin 

(S) 2015
 Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky The Ballery in Heat, The Ballery, Berlin (G) 
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) 

 2014

 Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G) 
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
 2013 
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region,  Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog) 
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
 Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen 
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Good Times (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Good Times (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2014 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda. This is an estate stamped and ...
Category

1950s American Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

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

Yucca (The Desert in Sepia) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Yucca (The Desert in Sepia) - 2019 Where once there was water there is no more, the Oasis is gone. 20x20cm, Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaro...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Accident I (Stay) - starring Ryan Gosling, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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. S...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

TODAY - large format (framed) photograph of conceptual billboard sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
billboard against ultramarine blue night sky, a large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboards in landscape of the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Ar...

California Mono - large photograph of infinite monochromatic desert landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of photographs capturing the Golden State's vast monochromatic desert landscapes on an moody autumn day 48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm ) edition of 7 signed 40 x 40 inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Desert Living (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017 40x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Blue Fall - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 27x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Blue Fall" exemplifies contemporary underwater fine art photography, merging surrealism with dynamic motion capture. In this ethereal composition, a figure in striking red fabric de...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Coney Island (Stay) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Coney Island Aquarium (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Washing made easy - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Washing made easy (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 40x48cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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 ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Palm Springs Palm Trees VIII (Californication) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees VIII (Californication) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory Number ...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Doll (Memories of Green)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Doll (Memories of Green) - 2003 Edition of 5, 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number 1149...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Pointe - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 35x25"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This elegant underwater photograph captures a ballet dancer in pointe shoes and flowing white tutu, suspended in deep teal waters. The rich contrast between the pristine white costum...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sunset II (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset II (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 90x112cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 9495.03. Signatu...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

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...
Category

2010s Photorealist California - Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Mad Max (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mad Max (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number 18...
Category

1990s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Accident II (Stay) with Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Accident II (Stay) -2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5444. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Beach Goals - large format photograph of iconic yellow soccer goals
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
an homage to the photo realism + pop art color palette of artist David Hockney Beach Goals by Erik Pawassar 29 x 40 inches (74 x 102cm) signed edition of 25 48 x 67 inches (122 x...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Tricks ( Till Death do us Part ) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tricks (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 43x59cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 9764 Not mounted...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Foreverly - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Foreverly' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 11...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Untitled 02 (Saigon), analog C-Print - 21st Century, Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 02 (Saigon) - 2003 57x58cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on the Polar...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Kirsten in front of Charlie's house (California Blue Screen) - analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten in front of Charlie's house (California Blue Screen) - 1997 Edition of 3/5, 44x59 cm Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Si...
Category

1990s Outsider Art California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Fabien I (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fabien I (The Last Picture Show) 2005 - 38x36cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Crystal Paper, based on an original Polaroid. Certificate...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
Category

1940s Realist California - Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lone Pine Motel - The Last Picture Show, analog, Polaroid, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lone Pine Motel (The last Picture Show) - 2005 128x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Mounted on...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

Crossfire (Californication) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crossfire (Californication) - 2019 50x50cm, sold out Lumas Edition of 150, available Artist Proof 4/5, 5/5. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature lab...
Category

2010s Contemporary California - Color Photography

Materials

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

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