Stefanie Schneider Figurative Photography

Once We Were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 - featuring Radha Mitchell 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, ...

Angel View (Memories of Green) - 2003 Edition 4/5 , 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artist in...

Bourbon (Suburbia) - 2004 Edition of 2/5, 60x80cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist based on the Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Artist Inventor...

Boy Running (Point Dume) - 2000 Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2. 100x133cm. Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label a...

The Dancer (Stay), 2006, 37x36cm, Edition of 2/5, Lambda Print, based on a Stefanie Schneider expired Polaroid photograph Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 5315.10...

Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2006 40x48cm,. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...

Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 78x76cm, Edition of 100. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Mounted under matte Plexiglass. Artist inventory number: 398. Signed on back and Certificate. (Sales to Europe will be produced in Europe to avoild custom problems and costs and will be delivered with a Signature label and Certificate) Stefanie Schneider – Palm Trees...

Wind Power (California Badlands) - 2021 24x34cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 4595. Not mounte...

Phoenix Rising (Strange Love) - 2007 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 9923. Not mounted. ...

A lonely and deserted Place (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013, 80x80cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on printed on Fuji Archive Paper, ba...

Henry watching Athena Dance (128x126cm) & Sam, Interior Hospital (37x36cm) (Stay), diptych, 2006, Artist Proof 1/2, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid...

Bishop, CA (Strange Love) diptych - 2005 2 Archival C-Prints, based on two Polaroids. 40x105 installed, 40x50cm each. Signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 9930. ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...

Sunset II (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 90x112cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 9495.03. Signatu...

Boccia VI (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Cami...

The Dancer (Stay) - 2006, 102x100cm each, installed 214x430cm, Edition of 4/5, 8 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 8 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label...

Sunscreen II (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1394. ...

Meet me in front of Church 2 o'clock sharp (Sidewinder) 2005, 18 pieces, installed 154x379cm installed including gaps, 48x59cm each, Edition 4/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on 18 Polaroids, Certificate and Signature labels artist Inventory No. 30568.04, not mounted The series 'Sidewinder' was used by the Salzburger Festspiele 2008 for the main image campaign: Stefanie Schneider, Sidewinder Exhibit • Galeries of the City of Salzburg • Galerie am Mozartplatz July 16 – August 29, 2008 “For love is as strong as death” – this motto, taken from King Salomon’s Song of Songs, is at the programmatic center of the Salzburg Festival...

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 20x24cm each, 20x80cm installed. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids. Signature label and certificate. Artist I...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 898, not mounted “I never rememb...

A sunny Moring II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) 2013, 20x24cm, Edition 9/10,digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...

Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory N...

Jules and Jim XI (Days of Heaven) - 2009 Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. Edition of 10, 50x50cm, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Arti...

Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid. Artist inventory Numb...

From a long forgotten Dream (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory 21582. Signature label an...

'Ewan McGregor' (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 5007.01 Not mounted Stefanie Sc...

Floaties #4 (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...

Jules and Jim (Renée's Dream), - 2007, from the 29 Palms, CA series, 40x39cm, Edition 3/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and sig...

Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...

Crow Burial II (Sidewinder) - 2005 20 x 20 cm, Edition 4/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 3505.04, Not mounted Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situat...

3 Stefanie Schneider's Minis from the movie Stay: 'Forgive me', 'Lila', 'Jellyfish' signed in front, not mounted Lambda digital Color Photographs based on Stefanie Schneider expired ...

'Daisy in front of Trailer' (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005 Edition of 50, 30 x 30 cm, Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Cristal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, Based on t...

Coney Island Aquarium (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...

Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 2007, 20x24cm, Edition 1/10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 8781. Not m...

Womb #02 - 2006, 56x55cm, Edition 2/5, Analog C-Print, printed by hand by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper. Based on the original Polaroid . Certificate and Signature la...

Accident III (Stay) -2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5339. ...

Boccia I (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Cam...

'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 2/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 2447.02 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13

 Photography Art Cinema. Revisited Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated. Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.

 Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.

 
Stay Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
 The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...

Henry watching Athena Dance (Stay) - 2006 78x76cm, Edition 4/5 analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inve...

Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 78x76cm, Edition of 100. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Mounted under matte Plexiglass. Artist inventory number: 398. Signed on back and Certificate. Stefanie Schneider – Palm Trees on Wilcox...

White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) featuring Radha Mitchell - 1999 128x125cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based o...

Bubble Dreams Bursting (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Sig...

Cherry Tree Blossoms (Till Death do us Part), diptych - 2006, 20x20cm each, installed 20x45, Edition 10/10. 2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids. Certificate and Signatur...

Daisy on Bed (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 - 125x154cm, Edition 3/3, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on an original Polaroid. Artist ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...

Boccia (Beachshoot) - 2005 70x135cm installed, including gaps - 8 pieces, 30x30cm each, almost sold out Edition of 100 plus 3 Artist Proofs. Available 100/100, AP 1/3, AP 3/3. Arc...

Matilda (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 50x49cm, Edition of 10. plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory 22234. Sign...

And there she was... (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...

'I'm frozen in my Memory of Love that once was' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid,...

Under Water (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), 2013 100x98cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Sign...

Three Girls IV (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. A...

'Caitlin aka Jane Bond III' (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Certificate and signature label, artist inventor...

Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 80x79cm, Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature ...

Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2006 38x36cm, Edition 2/10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature Label. Artist inventory Number 3602. Not mounted....

'On Hold' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 98x97cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label a...

'Daisy on Bed' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 38x47cm, Edition of 30 Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, ar...

When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004 28x37cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, unmounted. The project "Suburbia" was shot...

Everything put Together (Suburbia) - 2004 50x50cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate. Artist inventory #19313. Not mounte...

Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) - 1999, 40x40cm, Edition 3/10. Archival C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label a...