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Spring Poplar Trees, Pavia, Italy
By Michael Kenna
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25 Signed, titled, negative date, print date and numbered. Sepia toned gelatin silver print Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful and alluring. His ima...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Male Nude Beach Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Dean (1925-20020. Male Nude Study, ca. 1975-80. Origina; period print with artist studio stamp on verso. Print measures 2.25 x 4 3/8 inches; 9 x 12 inches...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Photography

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Silver Gelatin

I'm consumed #4. Color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Pigment

First Kiss (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
First Kiss (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Dissolve me (Bombay Beach) - Polaroid, Women
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dissolve me (Bombay Beach) - 2023 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2023-0...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Count Three
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
image size: 8 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches William Wegman is a renowned photographer famous for his unique and artistic photographs of Weimaraner puppies. His approach to is far from convent...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Pigment

Three Boys in Organza Jumpers
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Three Boys in Organza Jumpers 1960s/2022 Estate stamped and numbered on label, verso Digital C-print 31 x 31 inches, image (Edition of 15) $4,500 22 x 22 inches, image (Edition o...
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1960s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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C Print

Steve McQueen Racing Porsche
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning color action shot features American actor Steve McQueen. Often called "The King of Cool", whose "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the...
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1960s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Edwardo
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Edwardo 1992 Signed, titled, and dated in ink, recto Gelatin silver print 8.5 x 6 inches (21.6 x 15.2 cm), image 10 x 8 inches (25...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Rounds - underwater black and white photograph - archival pigment print 22x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white portrait of Justin Jedlica - The Human Ken Doll Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, furnished with ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled From the 'Serendipia' series, Black and white nude photograph
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

Lisa Ann, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25 Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10 Black and white portrait of model Lisa Ann. From personality portraits and advertising...
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1980s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Pigment

Open Road, Californian Road Sepia Landscape
By Roman Loranc
Located in Carmel, CA
Negative Date 2002 Print Date 2005 Edition 35/50 Excellent Condition Purchased Directly from Artist Considered a 20x24
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Early 2000s Continental US - Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - analog, not mounted, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - 4 pieces, 2003 Edition of 5, 105x100cm each, 220x220cm installed. Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Bride - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print 22x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white (sepia) photograph of a young woman in tule scarf - with distorted reflection of her body in the water surface. Original gallery quality archival pigment ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fata Morgana
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fata Margana - 2017 Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof Archival C-print, based on the Polaroid not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-138 Kirs...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Eikoh Hosoe, Japan, Breathing In the Spirit, Contemporary Japanese Photography
By Eikoh Hosoe
Located in New york, NY
Breathing In the Spirit of Shohaku Soga, 2003 by Eikoh Hosoe is a contemporary color photograph of Kazuo Ohno, a Butoh dancer. Hosoe's theatrical image is hand-signed on recto (front...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Missing - 40x40cm, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Women
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Missing - 2018 40x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2016-458. Not m...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

The Blue Pill to forget - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Blue Pill to forget (Burned) - Self Portrait 1999, Edition of 2/10, 40x40cm Print on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, No OBAs, Bright White, Acid Free based on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Sunbathing in Antibes, Estate Edition Photograph: Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc Poolside
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made famous by Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, the sun-kissed home away from home for titans of literature and music (Cole Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), and high society (the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson). Two female bathers in black sunhats enjoy a holiday in bikini and topless styles, against the rocks. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Photography

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Lambda

Tennis
By Max Steven Grossman
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Tennis themed bookscape
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21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Lyford Cay Fire Department' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The fire service in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1966 Slim Aarons Lyford Cay Fire Service Slim Aarons Estate Edit...
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1960s Realist Continental US - Photography

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Lambda

Throwing Doubles
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 4/5 Additional sizes available upon request. With his passion for formal technique and composition, internationally renowned photographer Nathan Coe’s works exude a deep revere...
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2010s Continental US - Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ever present - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ever Present - 2021 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1077. Not mounted...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Cloud
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
William Wegman is a renowned photographer famous for his unique and artistic photographs of Weimaraner puppies. His approach to is far from conventional, avoiding the typical "cuddly...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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Pigment

Young Lad ( haunting portrait of young boy on a crowded London street)
By Richard Sadler
Located in New Orleans, LA
Richard Sadler's "Young Boy" is a haunting portrait of a very serious young British lad amidst a crowd of other people. He is dressed very formally in hat, coat and tie. He clutche...
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1950s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Mobile by Alexander Calder (O'Keeffe at Abiquiu), Myron Wood Photograph
By Myron Wood
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning black and white photograph by renowned photographer Myron Wood captures the iconic mobile by Alexander Calder at Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu home in April 1980. The imag...
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1980s American Modern Continental US - Photography

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Photographic Film

Love Scene against the Wall from Sidewinder, part 4 - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love Scene against the Wall (Sidewinder), part 4 - 2007 40x40cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3277. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

Picasso and Skull with Bettina wearing McCardell, Wide, Looking Away, 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Picasso with Bettina and Skull, Wide, 1955 -- Photographed for LIFE in 1955 in his new Cannes Villa, La Californie, Picasso celebrates his fashion debut by clowning around with a sku...
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1950s Modern Continental US - Photography

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Giclée

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

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

The Grand Piano, Biblioteca Joanina
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 71.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Continental US - Photography

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Lambda

Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 16" х 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

"Gymnosomata" Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
By Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Gymnosomata" Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Comes with COA Available sizes: Edition of 15: 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Untitled 19 (Polaroid Transfer of Young Nude Man in Bed on Rives BFK)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
image size: 8 x 10 inches Young Nude Man in Bed Unique Polaroid Transfer on 22 x 15 inch Rives BFK paper, unframed signed SM Beard in pencil on bottom left...
Category

1990s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Polaroid

Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
By Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. Printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection. Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926. Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...
Category

1930s Photorealist Continental US - Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

NO. 7
By Melissa Mizrakli
Located in New York, NY
The photographs of the young Turkish artist Melissa Mizrakli focus on the human body, giving it a personal interpretation. In some of her black and white works she uses the human body only as a pictorial sign in order to create almost abstract works. First made anonymous, the female model is then cloned and circularly multiplied. The result is a kind of wheel in which the repeated human body gives birth to a new, seemingly vegetal or mineral structure. Thus, the human element seems to be transformed into different other natural species...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Kirk Bond #3268-3
Located in New York, NY
Kirk Bond #3268-3 Stamped and numbered in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 6.875 x 4.875, sheet 6.5 x 4.5 inches, image This work is offered by CLAMP...
Category

1960s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Block 02 and The Mask 03. Abstract color photographs. Diptych.
By Angelica Tcherassi
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artists computer-generated paintings merge craftsmanship and technology, creating an eclectic and unique style. Through her art, she aims to illuminate the world. Tcherassi's wo...
Category

2010s Abstract Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marfa ( Texas ) - large format photograph of dramatic clouds over endless fields
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Marfa ( Texas ) by Frank Schott country road view in West Texas, from a series of impressions captured in Marfa, Texas, longtime residence of minimalist artist Donald Judd 48 x 72 i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

"Horatio Street, NYC" Contemporary Photograph on Aluminum Framed
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Horatio Street, NYC" is a framed photograph on aluminum by Xan Padron, depicting a compilation of walking figures set against a brown/grey architectural background in NYC. Padron's ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

High Sierra Mustangs 36x48 Black & White Photography Wild Horses, Unsigned
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" Framing available. Inquire for rates. Shane Russec...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Amorphism 77. Color abstract nude photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Amorphisms explore the distorted and negative self-image, which is constructed and mutated from emotions, lived experiences, and interactions with others. Assuming that these mental ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Self Portrait on the Subway
By Peter Berlin
Located in New York, NY
Open Edition Archival pigment print Signed in black ink, recto 14 x 11 inches, sheet size 13 x 8.75 inches, image size Born in Poland in 1942 as Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene, Peter Berlin is a relative of the celebrated fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968). Raised in Germany, Peter Berlin received post-secondary education as a photo-technician, and in his early 20s worked as a celebrity portraitist for German television. However, it was around this time that he curiously began designing and sewing his own skin-tight clothing which he would wear as he cruised the parks and train stations in Berlin, Rome, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. After several long-term stays on the east coast of the United States, Peter Berlin eventually moved to San Francisco in 1969, and became a fixture on the steep streets with his signature look and perpetual posing. He soon began producing films and starred in the now iconic “Nights in Black Leather” (1973), co-directed by Richard Abel. Berlin then produced, directed, and starred in “That Boy” the following year, and made four shorter films through the mid- to late-1970s, while publishing and selling his photographic self portraits. Peter Berlin was the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.25 inches; 10 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ver...
Category

1970s Realist Continental US - Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Doll - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Nude
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Doll - 2017 - 20x20cm, Edition 4/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-128. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

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

American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed Nude signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed nude, 1967. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
Category

1960s Pop Art Continental US - Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Verbier Vacation (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation, 1964 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Ver...
Category

1960s Modern Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (Jackson)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Jackson) Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2017-2020 Signed and numbered, verso Archival pigment print 28 x 22 inches, sheet 24 x 20 inches, image (Edition of 7) $2,500 16 x 12.6...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Barn (Americana, Midwest, Classic, Vintage, Flag, Sky, ~26% OFF - LIMITED TIME)
By Kelly Ludwig
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kelly Ludwig Barn Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches Framed: 18 x 22 inches Signed: On Label COA provided *Black frame with standard plex Kelly Lud...
Category

2010s American Modern Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slow Motion (blue) - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 23.5" x 16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater photograph of a young naked woman slowly falling down through the pool water. Her strong body drops a bizarre shadow on the bottom of the pool ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Lost in Blue I (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lost in Blue I (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

I am dissolved #1 and #2, Diptych. Nude color photographs
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Actor Girl II (29 Palms, CA)- including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Actor Girl II (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

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

Body, Sepia. Nude. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sepia Color Archival Pigment print 36 x 24 in. Ed of 10 Unframed Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men through a romantic lens. The ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford in front of the Sand's Motel sign in Las Vegas, NV. This capture was taken as a promotion for the film "Ocean's Eleven". O...
Category

1950s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chicago, Iconic Black and White Photography, Pabst Blue Ribbon Sign
By Walker Evans
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph, Pabst Blue Ribbon sign, Chicago, Illinois, 1946, by Walker Evans is sheet size: 11.75" x 10.44" and image size: 9.25" x...
Category

1940s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Grace Kelly Carrying Groceries
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features American movie actress Grace Kelly, best known for her roles in "To Catch a Theif", "Rear Window", and "High Society". The actress is pictured ...
Category

1950s Contemporary Continental US - Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Nirvana color slide print Nevermind by Kirk Weddle - framed signed print
Located in Austin, TX
Signed color slide print of Nirvana taken by Kirk Weddle during his session with the band in the pool to promote the 1991 groundbreaking album, Nevermind. This is a photograph, take...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Continental US - Photography

Materials

Giclée

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