Stefanie Schneider - Max in pool (29 Palms, CA)





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Has over ten years of experience in art, specialising in post-war photography and contemporary art.
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Max in Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 -
20x20cm
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proofs 1/2.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 612.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not Mounted.
for more information please read the Catawiki article: https://www.catawiki.com/stories/2671-studying-stefanie-schneider-polaroid-photographer-20-03-2017
Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with chemical mutations of expired polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
Stefanie's work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, …
Max in Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 -
20x20cm
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proofs 1/2.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 612.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not Mounted.
for more information please read the Catawiki article: https://www.catawiki.com/stories/2671-studying-stefanie-schneider-polaroid-photographer-20-03-2017
Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with chemical mutations of expired polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
Stefanie's work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, …
