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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1990s
Krakow, Poland (Triptych of Monument bust with Pigeons)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Peace, Williamsburg, NY, 1995
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
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1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Morrissey by Kevin Cummins
By Kevin Cummins
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition silver gelatin print of Morrissey, former frontman of rock band The Smiths, wearing a plaster on his forehead, September 5, 1991. This Morrissey print by Kevi...
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1990s Photorealist USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dance Study: Shannon Chain #3
By Howard Schatz
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 14 of 24 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool Light...
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1990s American Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dance Study: Askia Swift
By Howard Schatz
Located in Lawrence, NY
#11 of 24, signed, dated and numbered edition of 24 across all sizes Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool...
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1990s American Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Foro Italico
By Michael Scalisi
Located in New York, NY
Foro Italico 1995 Signed, titled, and dated in blue ink, verso Gelatin silver print 13.5 x 8.875 inches (34.3 x 22.5 cm), image 14 x 10.875 inches (35.6 x 27.6 cm), sheet This wo...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

22x22" Contemporary Fine Art Photography, Nudes, Woman - n. 5
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series of black and white Nude abstract contemporary art photography (13 in series). Gallery exclusively presents this series of the human form - that which has inspired ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Roger Daltrey, The Who, Classic Rock Photography Print by Jeffrey Mayer
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist: Jeffrey Mayer Limited Edition: Signed and hand numbered in the margin, archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a Baryta finish. Authorized worldwide release of 100 prints as follows: 18X24, Edition 70 24X32, Edition 30 Remastered and printed at FATHOM Los Angeles Frame: FATHOM solid hardwood frames are sourced from managed forests that meet or exceed FSC certification standards. The shadow box style frame is 1 1/4 in high by 3/4 in wide with premium plexiglass. Starting his 50+ year career in the summer of 1966, after seeing The Beatles at Shea Stadium...
Category

1990s Performance USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cafe de Flore, Paris France 1997
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition 6 of 25. CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through October 29th, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after October 29th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.” ABOUT In 2008, Andrew Arrick and Michael Hofeman first came across The Robin Rice Gallery and immediately fell in love with the fine art photography becoming fans and collectors of the work. On a visit to the gallery this past winter, Michael and Andrew had a brilliant idea to join forces with Robin to curate an exhibition in tune with the aesthetic of their vintage lifestyle boutique, FINCH hudson...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Swim, Bear Lake, Utah, 1998
By Lance Clayton
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery endeavors are superbly managed. Whether working with corporate clients, interior designers or established collectors, the Robin Rice Gallery guides patrons throughout the selection process, inspiring them to build a stylish collection or striking décor. The Robin Rice Gallery offers a bevy of styles that Robin has procured with her own signature school of artists. Figurative, black and white, water, swim, swimming, lake, Bear lake...
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1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Golden Gate Bridge, Study 14, San Francisco California, USA by Michael Kenna
By Michael Kenna
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 45 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on mount margin recto. Signed, titled, negative date, print date and numbered in pencil with the artist's stamp in black ink on mou...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage B&W Fine Art Fashion Photgraph of Kate Moss & Paul Rowland
Located in Surfside, FL
Original B&W Fine Art Fashion Photgraph of Kate Moss and Paul Rowland Kate Moss- Kate Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was discovered in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management, at JFK Airport in New York City. Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. She had campaigns for designers including Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, and Chanel. She received an award at the 2013 British Fashion Awards to acknowledge her contribution to fashion over 25 years. In 2007, TIME named her one of the world's 100 most influential people. She has inspired cultural depictions including a £1.5m ($2.8m) 18 carat gold statue of her, sculpted in 2008 for a British Museum exhibition. Paul Rowland- He is the one, that everybody knows about, Paul Rowland. A genius in the modeling industry, president of Ford Models New York, owner of Women Model Management & Supreme Management and photographer. Paul Rowland has more, than 20 years experiences in the industry. Paul Rowland was born in Arkansas in the USA. He left his home town and moved to New York City with the dream to become a painter. Not long after this he founded Women Management and Supreme Models. Paul Rowland founded Women Management in 1989. In his more than 15 years of professional experience, he has made transformation from model to founder of his own agency, and is credited for establishing a unique roster of talent known for personality and accessibility previously unseen in the business. He participated in the exhibition at Art Basel in 2008 In Fashion Photo features an exclusive collection of more than 250 contemporary works of photographic art by more than 35 of the world‟s leading icons in fashion photography. Representing more than 15 countries in five continents, some of the most globally esteemed names from the fashion photo world exhibited their work, including Slim Aarons, Miles Aldridge, Olivia Beasley, Michael Dweck, Arthur Elgort, Charles Frèger, Erwan Frotin, Alice Hawkins, Steve...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

22x22 in. Nude Contemporary Abstract Art photography - Nudes n. 3, Woman, Body
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series of black and white Nude abstract contemporary art photography (13 in series). We present this series of the human form - that which has inspired artists from time im...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Daido Moriyama Tokyo 1990 (Daido Moriyama Water Flower)
By Daido Moriyama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Signed Daido Moriyama photograph: Tokyo 1990: Daido Moriyama Water Flower Shibuya-ku, Tokyo: “When I stepped out onto the veranda that connected to the...
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1990s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Inkjet

KISS #2
By Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: KISS #2 Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pe...
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1990s USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Framed Little Buddha sepia phothograh, Archival Pigment Print
By Robert Curran
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Little Buddha by Robert Curran Image size: 24 x 16 inches Framed 41.5 x 34 x 1 inches Archival pigment print/ signed by the artist 1998     Robert was born in Manhattan and moved to...
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1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

Kate Moss
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi and a 14 day return policy. This is available for pick up framed at Los Angeles gallery at no additional charge. For transport the US and internationally, please inquire for more details. Kate Moss by Glen Luchford...
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1990s USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Ray Charles #2 Photo
By Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Ray Charles #2 Photo Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle...
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1990s USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bahia Brazil Photograph (Boy and Dog, Summer)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Fernando Natalici, "Boy and Dog," Bahia, Brazil 1998: Artist Notes: "I was walking on the beach late afternoon with my friend Geralyn from New York near t...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Paul McCartney #2 Photo
By Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Paul McCartney #2 Concert Photo Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on ve...
Category

1990s USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Radiohead, New York City, 1997
By Danny Clinch
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Please allow four weeks production time.
Category

1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

My Thinking Time
By Earlie Hudnall Jr.
Located in Dallas, TX
No Edition Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches. Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African Amer...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sailor, Istanbul, 1994
By Micheal McLaughlin
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category

1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Crazy Horse Saloon Owner in Paris, France, Black and White Portrait Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph from 1994 that captures Alain Bernardin and chorus girls at The Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris, France. A leading tourist attract...
Category

1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Radiohead, New York City, 1997
By Danny Clinch
Located in New York, NY
20x24" Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Please allow four weeks production time.
Category

1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Groom with the White Arabian, CA
By Arthur Tress
Located in New York, NY
Groom and the White Arabian, CA 1996 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto Gelatin silver print (Edition of 50) 14.75 x 14.75 inches (37.5 x 37.5 cm), image This work...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Nude Body Study 1448
By Howard Schatz
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 1 of 8 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fo...
Category

1990s American Modern USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Photo-respiration 1998 Yura #340, Japan, Conceptual Photography by Tokihiro Sato
By Tokihiro Sato
Located in New york, NY
Photo-respiration Yura #340, 1998 by Japanese artist Tokihiro Sato is a contemporary abstract photograph signed by the artist. Sato used a large-format camera for a long exposure ima...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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

The Beatles - Ringo Starr Boots and Spurs on the toilet seat
Located in Brookville, NY
This photograph of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr's cowboy boot with spurs, resting on the toilet seat was taken in 1975 in England. It is a print on exhibition fiber paper, signed on the lower right side "Nancy Lee Andrews...
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1990s American Realist USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled (Needle & Water Droplets)
By Chema Madoz
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition 5/5 Toned gelatin silver print 43 x 43 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on verso. Frame Included. Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photo...
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1990s Surrealist USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ellen Kogan performing a tribute to Ruth St. Denis, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Ellen Kogan performing a tribute to Ruth St. Denis choreography in 1994, signed by Jack Mitchell, taken for The New York Times. This is an 8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph t...
Category

1990s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ripples
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Schnitzel Please!, " Dresden Germany 1999 (dog photograph)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Schnitzel Please!" This timeless, charming photo of a town favorite Dresden Dog, was captured by New York based photographer Fernando Natalici in Germany...
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1990s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Rudy Giuliani
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Giuliani in the Blue Room. He bought his first camera at the 1939 World's Fair for 39 cents, but he did not start taking photographs as a vocation until he was a paratrooper in occup...
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1990s USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Schnitzel Please!, " Dresden, Germany, 1999
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Schnitzel Please!" This timeless, charming photo of a town favorite Dresden Dog, was captured by New York based photographer Fernando Natalici in Ge...
Category

1990s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Squiggle Nude
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category

1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Walking Lulu - 2001, 20x83cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the 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 darkroom. 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 USA - Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid

Nude with White Line
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Madonna the Giraffe, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1998
By Mary Ellen Mark
Located in New York, NY
Madonna the Giraffe, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1998 1998/printed later Estate stamp in black ink, verso Archival pigment print 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm), sheet 5.5 x 4.25 inches (14 x...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vortex
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ethereal Couple
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Blackwater Baptist Church, Mississippi
By Earlie Hudnall Jr.
Located in Dallas, TX
No Edition Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 inches. Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African Ameri...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

2 Boys, 2 Dogs, 3rd Ward, Houston, Texas
By Earlie Hudnall Jr.
Located in Dallas, TX
Gelatin silver print Paper size: 10 x 8 in., Image size: 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Printed 2013 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Love Knot
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bottoms Up
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Father/Son I
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Pods
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Source
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category

1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dream
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2021 50x50cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Cert...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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

Hampton Court Palace, England, 1994
By Micheal McLaughlin
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
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1990s Modern USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dance Study 1117
By Howard Schatz
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 1 of 8 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fo...
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1990s American Modern USA - Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dune
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Male Nude in Motel II (29 Palms, CA) - Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude in Motel II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 - 30x40cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. . Artist Inventory No. 2777. “It ...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid

Sunday Morning Coffee Photograph New York, NY 1996
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Sunday Coffee, New York, NY 1996 photographed by downtown New York art scene photographer, Fernando Natalici. Archival Inkjet Print, 11 x 14 inches. Hand signed on the verso from an edition of 50. Obtained directly from artist. Excellent condition. New York based photographer Fernando Natalici is best known for his iconographic documentation of the downtown Manhattan art scene of the mid/late 70's and early 80's. Natalici’s portfolio includes sought after images of a young Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keith Haring, The Ramones and more. As an Art Director, Fernando has played a key role in creating memorable visuals for historic NY venues such as CBGB's, The Mudd Club, Area and Danceteria. Fernando’s photo archive and art design were recently featured in two highly regarded New York shows: “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC (2014) & “Downtown New York Film” at The Museum of The Moving Image (2015). Recent Publications & Exhibits Jim Jarmusch...
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1990s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography

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Inkjet

Large format vintage multiple exposure male nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph, multiple exposure male nude. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell's artist’s statement on this project: For five decades in New York City I photographed established and emerging creative and performing artists for major publications. The Numbered Nudes photographs are a development, and expansion, of my dance photography...
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1990s Abstract USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vivienne VII (Desert Nudes) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Vivienne VII (Desert Nudes) - 2016 - 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature l...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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

The Kiss, 3rd Ward, Houston, Texas
By Earlie Hudnall Jr.
Located in Dallas, TX
No Edition Gelatin silver print Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. Paper size: 16 x 20 in., Image size: 13 x 19 in. Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon...
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1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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