Stefanie Schneider's new book, titled "Instantdreams" is an incisive selection of 
Stefanie Schneider's new book, titled "Instantdreams" is an incisive selection of her most notable work made in collaboration with Lumas and celebrating it's 10 years of rocking the art market.

Schneider takes the American West as her inspiration to tell stories in that evoke ideas of masquerade and play. The intense gaze of her female characters undermine their playful edge suggesting an unnerving or tragic quality beneath the surface of these glamourous women. Collectively the works evoke love, pain, loneliness, alienation, rediscovery and suggest a social commentary on America; pointing out the cracks beneath the surface of the ’American Dream’.

Using expired Polaroid film Schneider’s images emphazise the sun drenched light of California and embody the cinematographic quality of the films of Quentin Tarantino or Oliver Stone. They're reminiscent of forgotten memories, dreams and chance encounters. Schneider is intent to illustrate the imperfect or "Wabi-Sabi"  using the blemishes imperfections of the expired film.

Schneider has commented on the relationship between her bleached out Cali- fornian dream-scapes and the disintegration of a faded Hollywood dream, "Hollywood is the quintessential dream factory, many go there to follow their dreams, sometimes only to have them shattered." As a European living in Los Angeles, her work highlights aspects of melancholy and loss that lie beneath the glamour of of Hollywood.

Prepare to be enchanted.
Stefanie Schneider's new book, titled "Instantdreams" is an incisive selection of 

 

Stefanie Schneider
29 PALMS, CA
Pocket Polaroid Series #004
published by SCHWARZERFREITAG, Berlin
ISBN 9-783937623-04-7
30,00 EUR plus shipping

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Hrsg. Dominique A. Faix, Noëlle Stahel und Daniela Bosshardt (nd-projects, Zürich)
German / English
Hardcover Edition
Hatje Canz Verlag, 2006
ISBN 3-7757-1751-X
signed copy 70,00 EUR plus shipping
Edition: hand-printed C-Print included,
20cm x 20cm, 2005, Ed. of 50
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Stefanie Schneider's new book, titled "Instantdreams" is an incisive selection of 
The first complete overview of the work by Stefanie Schneider. With over 320 coloured illustrations on 200 pages. This collection of photos is a fascinating experiment - a series of pictures filmic in conception, unified by motifs of the American Southwest as experienced in old film noir about drifters, desert hotels, babes and vagabonds at large. Schneider, a German, absorbed this milieu in old American cinema and studiously arranged these images to appear off-hand, off-beat. Surreal use of expired film adds the element of chance, but also gives the project a gritty seal of authenticity - if these were real people they would have left such an apparently artless record of themselves. There is no script, and none is necessary - a primal tale with ordinary looking people with archetypical histories - they drink, make love in nameless hotels, stalk the desert under blinding sun, dance and carouse, and endlessly move on. The images say more  the longer you look at them, calling out from what looks like a perpetual time warp, a liberating illusion of elemental vastness and endless time, with a touching, stark elemental quality that stops just short of banalty. Nothing beats the babes with the crazy wigs & toy squirt guns. (Wildenmut)   

Der erste Gesamtüberblick über die bisherigen Arbeiten des neuen Shooting Stars der jungen deutschen Fotografenszene. Fleckig, überbelichtet und fehlfarbig - die suggestiven Fotografien von Stefanie Schneider brechen mit den Konven-tionen des Handwerks. Die von ihr verwendeten, abgelaufenen Polaroidfilme verzerren surreal, was man aus Road-Movies kennt: Reklameschilder aus den Fünfzigern, Palmen vor zyan- blauem Himmel, bonbonfarbene Straßenkreuzer, eine einsame Tankstelle mitten im Nichts. Die Absolventin der Essener Folkwang-Schule bevölkert diese Schauplätze mit zerbrechlich jungen, seltsam entrückt wirkenden Platzhalterfiguren; ihre bunten Inszenierungen von Normalität scheinen unterschwellig bedroht oder bedrohlich. Nicht umsonst integrierte Regisseur Marc Forster Fotografien von Stefanie Schneider in seinen neuen Thriller »Stay« mit Ewan McGregor und Naomi Watts. Stranger than Paradise, Schneiders jüngste Hollywood-Reminiszenz, erscheint rechtzeitig zu diesem Filmstart.

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editor. Thomas Schirmböck, ZEPHYR
essays written by James Scarborough, Megan Mullally, Mark Gisbourne, Renée Chabria
2006. 80 pages, 29,7 x 21 cm, english, linen cover with image imprinted, Edition Braus, 2006 | ISBN: 3-89904-211-5-5
signed Wastelands book 100,00 EUR plus shipping • only a few books left
edition Wastelands: hand-printed C-Print included, 20cm x 20cm, 2003, Ed. of 50 in a hand made box numbered and signed 280 EUR plus shipping
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