Confetti Alexandra
December, 1991
By Nancy Bartels
Senior Editor, Confetti
..."miniature". Some of her most popular works are 16x20s and 20x24s. She recently began working in the 30"x40" size.
The other challenge Schneider has set for herself is working with the new Polaroid transfer process. In this technique, 35mm pictures are converted into Polaroids and then printed on watercolor paper. At that point, Schneider begins to paint on them.
Still very much in the experimental stage with this process, Schneider says "You have to do these over and over until you get something you really like. Every piece is different. Sometimes the result is pleasing. Sometimes it's not. I like the effects when I can draw and paint on the photos. They're a much more personal artform for me than, say, Cibachromes."
And where to now for Schneider, beyond exploring bigger size photos and a new photographic process? For one thing, she is getting ready for a show in New Orleans in October at A Gallery for Fine Photography. She is also hoping to get her portfolio around to more ad and design agencies. "I see a lot of ads that I think my work would be perfect for; but I get so busy sometimes that I don't get my portfolio out
Over the long term, Schneider wants to go back to doing books. "I like to do whole design projects. I'd like to a book of my own work. And what I would really love to do is illustrate a book of Colette' writing...her work is so beautiful and so sensual.
"of course, I love what I am doing right now. I get a kick out of seeing my work published. But I'm still dying to go to IItaly.I want to shoot the landscape and the architecture and the people, and, of course, be able to capture the sense of the past that pervades everything. And there's Paris and London, too..."
Whatever direction Schneider's work goes in next, that fascination remains. As long as the world remains full of details articulated by light, line, and shadow she will not lack for sources of inspiration.