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Stefanie Schneider
Plane blue (Stranger than Paradise)
2008

Name: Plane blue (Stranger than Paradise)
Brand: Stefanie Schneider
Rating: 4.9 (38 reviews)

$500

£379.67

€455.39

CA$716.08

A$739.17

CHF 416.63

MX$9,563.10

NOK 4,753.30

SEK 5,014.52

DKK 3,403.77

About the Item

Plane blue - 2008 40x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4647. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider – Time in Flight In Stefanie Schneider’s world, airplanes don’t soar—they linger. Suspended in the faded blues and sunburnt oranges of her signature Polaroid palette, these aircraft become symbols of longing, escape, and the hazy promise of elsewhere. Shot in the wide-open skies of the California desert, Schneider’s airplane images resist the urgency we typically associate with flight. Instead, they evoke stillness, a kind of temporal limbo—neither arrival nor departure, just the space in between. Working exclusively with expired Polaroid film, Schneider invites time itself into the image-making process. The emulsion’s chemical decay becomes part of the narrative, with every streak, blur, or shift in color revealing a collaboration between artist, material, and memory. The imperfections are never flaws—they are evidence of life unfolding, fading, and transforming. Just as memory distorts over time, so do her photographs. What remains is an emotional truth, however elusive or abstract. Her airplane photographs are particularly powerful within this framework. The aircraft, often viewed from below or mid-ascent, becomes more than machine—it’s metaphor. A vessel caught between the past and future, between earth and sky, between hope and melancholy. There’s a cinematic quality to these images, as though they’re stills from a dream you forgot to finish. Stefanie Schneider’s work is not about freezing time. It’s about showing how it melts. And in these images of airplanes poised midair—washed in light, softened by age, hovering like ghosts—she captures something deeply human: our desire to move forward while still tethered to what we’ve left behind. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen, Bombay Beach Biennale 2018. COLLECTIONS DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany / Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland / Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany /  Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany / Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany / ARTISTS for TICHY - TICHY for ARTISTS, TICHY Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany / Polaroid Collection, USA / Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada / Kunstsammlung Kanton Zug, Switzerland / Bombay Beach Biennale, California / The Brooklyn Museum, NY / LACMA , Los Angeles / Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection, Texas, USA

Creator:
Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
Creation Year:
2008
Dimensions:
Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
More Editions & Sizes:
20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Price: $380
Medium:
Archival Paper,Photographic Paper,C Print,Polaroid
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2000-2009
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Morongo Valley, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU652316093672

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