Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider (born 1968 in Cuxhaven) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider is known for using expired Polaroid instant film material to achieve an effect of washed-out colors and random artifacts from the deprecation of the chemicals. Combined with her preferred choice of location, the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded film stills. Schneider's work is internationally exhibited in galleries and private collections and released in books and exhibition catalogs. Schneider hold a MFA in photography from the Folkwang Schule in Essen, Germany.

She is currently working on the 29 PALMS, CA. 29 PALMS, CA is a feature film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. A defining feature of the film is the use of still images and the use of voice over. Characters talk to us / themselves / you about their ambitions, memories, hopes, fears and dreams. The film is to be shot using a mix of super 8 and 16mm film stock and Polaroid images. Certain computer-generated effects will also be used to enhance the films surreal mood and to animate its dark humor. Radha Mitchell, Marc Forster and Udo Kier are participating as well as many others in the "29 Palms, CA" project.

Bibliography

* "Wastelands" (exhibition catalog), James Scarborough, Edition Braus, 2006
* "Stranger than Paradise" (monographie), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006
* "The greater the emptiness the grander the art: 29 Palms, CA" (exhibition catalog), Galerie Kaempf, Basel, 2004
* "Night On Earth", Walter König Verlag, Köln, 2001
* "Entweder? Oder!" (catalog) Allianz, Berlin, 2001
* "Sehnsucht nach Utopie - Film und Fotografie im Dialog", Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2000

External links

* [http://twentyninepalms.ca 29 Palms,Ca Project]
* [http://www.instantdreams.net/ Artist's website]
* [http://www.peek.tv/nd-projects/stefanie_schneider/ Gallery Switzerland]
* [http://www.galerie-robert-drees.de/deutsch/kuenstler/schneider.phtml/ Gallery Germany]

References

* "NZZ am Sonntag": "Ausgewaschene Farben, unheimliche Welt", 2006-04-23
* "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung": "Zwiegespräch von Wand zu Wand und andere Verwirrungen", 2006-04-03
* "Die Welt": "Polaroid Movie: Stefanie Schneider bei Lumas“, 2005-02-09
* "Diario Sur": "La belleza del error calculado", 2004-12-19
* "ARD", "Kulturweltspiegel": "Stefanie Schneiders inszenierte Schnappschüsse: Die 'Polaroad Movies' von Deutschlands neuem Star der Fotoszene" 2005-07-24
* "Arte, "Metropolis": "Mises en scène photographiques de Stefanie Schneider" 2005-08-13