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Stefanie Schneider. Stranger Than Paradise [SIGNED]

Blume, Eugen; Mark Gisbourne; Marc Foster; Stefanie Schneider

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatja Cantz, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Stefanie Schneider on half-title. Small Folio. 199 (1)pp. Original cream paper-covered boards with white lettering on cover and spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, orange and black lettering on spine. Cream endpapers.

"Blotchy, overexposed, and unusually colored–Stefanie Schneider's suggestive photographs break with the conventions of the medium. The old Polaroid film she uses distorts in the surreal manner of road movies: billboards from the fifties, palm trees against a cyan-blue sky, candy-colored limousines, a gas station in the middle of nowhere. A graduate of the Folkwang School in Essen, Schneider populates these settings with young people who seem oddly lost; her colorful staging of normality seems to be subliminally threatened or threatening. Director Marc Foster had good reason to integrate Schneider's photographs into "Stay," his new thriller starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts." (Publisher). Beautifully illustrated with Schneider's dreamlike color photographs throughout. With contributions by Eugen Blume, Mark Gisbourne and Marc Foster. Biographical text by Stefanie Schneider. Translations by Christiane Seiler and George Frederick Takis. Contains list of exhibitions, bibliography and selected collections at rear. Text in German and English. Dustjacket with small closed tear at tail of spine. Near fine condition. Item #48510

Price: $350.00