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Portrait Photography For Sale
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Artist: Trenity Thomas
American Pie (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
American Pie (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007, from the 29 Palms, CA project - 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Evesdroppings (29 Palms, CA) - Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid, Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Eavesdropping' (29 Palms, CA), Edition 3/10, 20x20cm, 1999, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory No. 18257.03. Not mounted. ...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Gestures' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Gestures' - 1999 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Sam (Stay) - starring Ewan McGregor
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's art was the art both created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as art paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie. This Piece: Sam (Stay) - starring Ewan McGregor, 2006, 49x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 5026. Not mounted. ----- Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13

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

 Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Analog, Landscape, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Harmony Motel (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper (matte) based on an expir...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

10525 (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'10525 (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 5 pieces, each 20x20cm, installed 20x112cm including gaps. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signatu...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Hideout (Wastelands) - analog vintage print, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hideout (Wastelands) - 2003 57x56cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum with matte ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Untitled (Fairytales) - analog, Contemporary, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Fairytales) - 2006 100x80cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish, based on the original Polaroid. Certi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Oxana and Hans - Stage of Consciousness, part 3, featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oxana and Hans (Stage of Consciousness), part 3 - 2007 41x52cm, Sold out Lumas Edition of 147, Artist Proof 3/3. Lambda Print, based on the original Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Lalala (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lalala (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

I wie Ikarus (Zuma Beach) - triptych - analog vitage prints, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I wie Ikarus (Zuma Beach) - Edition 1/10, 43x49cm each, installed with gaps (depending on installation) 80x240cm, 3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 3 origin...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Every single Incident weighs Tons (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Every Single Incident Weighs Tons (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 90x89cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Lone Pine Dreaming (The Last Picture Show) - diptych, analog, mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lone Pine Dreaming (The Last Picture Show) - diptych - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm each, 58x119 installed. 2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Pap...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Jungle Boy (Back in the 80's)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Jungle Boy (Back in the 80's) - 1999 48x46cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

By the Fountain (Stay) - starring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Tomorrow (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tomorrow (The Last Picture Show) - 2000 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 2750. Signature l...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Lady Bird (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lady Bird (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2016 Edition 1/10. 36x36cm including white frame, 30x30cm image size. Archival Print on Dibond, based on the Polaroid. Signed ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'The Muse' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'The Muse' - 2009 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Love you Actor Girl (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love you Actor Girl (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Three Boys (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Boys (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventor...
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1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

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

Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Pop-art, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 50x48cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, mounted on Dibond with matte UV-Protection. Signature label and ...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Kirsten smokes (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten smokes (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist invento...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artis...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Living by Voices we shall never hear (Chicks and Chicks and Sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Living by Voices we shall never hear (Chicks and Chicks and Sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certific...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Abracadabra (Chicks and Chicks and Sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abracadabra (Chicks and Chicks and Sometimes Cocks) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

On One's Own (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On One's Own (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invent...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Transformation (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Transformation (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inve...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Booty (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Booty (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory # 7...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Golden (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Golden (Musica Poetica) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
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1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

Materials

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

The Letter (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Letter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Chicken Madonna (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Chicken Madonna (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2016 100x125cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on back with Certifi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Innocence (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Innocence (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Always and Forever (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Always and Forever (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Max by the Fence - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Max by the Fence' (29 Palms, CA) Proof b4 Printing / 2005, 128x125cm analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, signed on front. The white border is for ease o...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid

Stefanie Schneider Minis -Jelly Fish (Stay)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Jelly Fish" (Stay), 2006 signed and signature brand on verso Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid from the movie 'Stay' by Marc Forster,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Be Aware - Wrong Way - Polaroid, analog, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Beware - Wrong Way (Stranger than Paradise), triptych - 1997 Edition 2/3, 54x71cm each, installed with gaps 172x71cm. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist and based on t...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Compose (Stage of Consciousness) - Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Compose (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory #...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Frozen (16 pieces) Contemporary, Landscape, USA, Polaroid, Figurative, Ice, Snow
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frozen (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001 Edition of 5 16 pieces, 48 x 47 cm each, 2.20 x 2.20 cm installed. Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 16 Polaroids. Signat...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Li(e)be (Stage of Consciousness) with Udo Kier - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
L(i)ebe (Stage of Consciousness) - from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 starring Udo Kier 75x90cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

On the Run (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Run (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 24x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Mels (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mels (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventor...
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1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Sam' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Sam' - 2006 - featuring Ewan McGregor signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Ph...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Untitled (Beachshoot) - with Radha Mitchell, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Mounted under Plexiglass (matte) with Aluminum backing. Signed on back with Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1400. featuring Australian actress Radha Mitchell. Beachshoot These photographic phantasies are determined by carefully chosen constraints and the use of symbolic attributes. Telegraph poles, airplanes, vast wastelands, a train bridge or a 50s American car tell in the same manner different stories, as do lurid wigs, kids toys, a headscarf or an old super 8 camera...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (9/11) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (9/11) - 2001 Edition of 5, 38x37cm. Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 1539. Signature label and certifi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Narween (Saigon) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory Number 22722. Not mou...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

American Pie (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
American Pie (Oxana's 30th Birthday) -2007, from the 29 Palms, CA project - 38x36cm, Edition of 10. digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid, mounted...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

We can still get through (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
We can still get through (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Prints based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 481...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Hillview Motel (Last Picture Show) - analog, vintage, mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hillview Motel (Stranger than Paradise) - triptych, 2003 Edition 7/10, 68x183cm installed, 68x60cm each including white frame. 3 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, base...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Joshua Tree National Park (29 Palms, CA) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Joshua Tree National Park (29 Palms, CA) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature lab...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Lila and Sam from the movie Stay with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

The Actress and the Lawyer (California Blue Screen) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Actress and the Lawyer (California Blue Screen) - featuring Radha Mitchell - 1999 44x59cm, Edition 4/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Pol...
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1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

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

Dust Bowl Farm (American Depression) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dust Bowl Farm (American Depression) - 1997 44x59cm, Edition 3/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
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1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography

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

The Sphere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Sphere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Outtake (Wastelands) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outtake (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition of 5, 128x125cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number 819.01, complete with certificate and signature label Not mounted For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. purchase the 2nd edition and have it unmounted. Exhibited: Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) (2006) / Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog) (2006) Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S) (2007) Published in: WASTELANDS published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006 (monograph) Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had regis- tered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pic- tures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were begin- ning to look up. That’s when the shooting started… Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila. Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abol- ish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and story line, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end-result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowl- edges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty. She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other- worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Penny Lane and Nastasia at Sunset (Chicks and Chicks...) - Polaroid, Chicken
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane and Nastasia at Sunset (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Margarita’s Letter (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita’s Letter (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs

Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.

Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.

Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.

While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.

Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.

Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.

On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.

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