'Toast is Ready' (Cyndi Lauper) - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

'Toast is Ready' (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album, 2009, 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, artist inventory number: 11030.07. Not mounted, Stefanie Schneider: A German view of the American West The works of Stefanie Schneider evoke Ed Ruscha's obsession with the American experience, the richness of Georgia O'Keefe's deserts and the loneliness of Edward Hopper's haunting paintings. So how exactly did this German photographer become one of the most important artists of the American narrative of the 20th and 21st century? Born in Germany in 1968, photographer Schneider divides her time between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her process begins in the American West, in locations such as the planes and deserts of Southern California, where she photographs her subjects. In Berlin, Schneider develops and enlarges her works by hand. What is initially most striking about Schneider's images is simply the color of her expired Polaroids but her role in preserving the use of Polaroid film is one aspect of her work that has gained great respect from her contemporaries and the critics, as her work came about during a time when the Polaroid, a symbol of American photography, was on the road to extinction. This theme of preservation and deterioration is a core part of Schneider's oeuvre. In an interview in October 2014 with Artnet, the artist explained how her own experiences of pain and loss inspire her. ''My work resembles my life: Love, lost and unrequited, leaves its mark in our lives as a senseless pain that has no place in the present.'' Schneider's subjects are often featured in apocalyptic settings: desert planes, trailer parks, oilfields, run-down motels and empty beaches, alone, or if not, not connected with one another. ''It is the tangible experience of ''absence'' that has inspired my work,'' explained Schneider. What makes Stefanie Schneider’s work so unique is that it’s immediately recognizable. Unmistakably ‘wabi-sabi’ in appearance and content. Dream like, colorful with depth and vision. From start to finish, a truly self made artist with a distinctively female perspective. The film was bought, stored and used only for when it's best performance is expected. The sets, costumes and concepts are all constructed from Stefanie who Invites friends to play in the dreams she wants to conjure. Stefanie Schneider picks the best Polaroid and then makes a large format negative that she'll use to enlarge the image to it's optimum size and finally hand print an edition in her self built darkroom/dreamlab. Ready for mounting and hanging. (Barnebys UK, May 3, 2017)

Photography:Polaroid on Other

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:9.4 W x 7.9 H x 0.1 D in

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