ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Regarding his intentions on this most current series of nude photographs, Schoenfeld states: “The only unifying issue, in my own thinking, was that these images were meant to be lived with, on a wall, in a home or office.”

And what are we looking at when we gaze at these images? Bodies in motion, blurred and diffused in multiple exposures, sometimes alone and sometimes in duets of physicality. The tones are black and white or sepia, mostly monochromatic but some allowing hints of color, as if to muffle or mute the emotions one might ordinarily associate with nudity. Indeed, faces are indistinct, fleetingly glimpsed, and often masked. They may be naked, these women, but they are by no means exposed. They are elusive, mysterious, mythic—which appears to be Schoenfeld’s intention, destined (as he says these images are) for personal contemplation in private spaces, the home or the office.

AUTHOR

“Schoenfeld takes pictures rather than photographs, his carefully orchestrated images appear, at a glance, like classic paintings”.
- International Herald Tribune, New York Times.



Exhibited over 3 continents, in over 30 cities such as Mexico, Paris, Barcelone, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, Salzburg, with over 20 000 visitors in 2011 to his exhibition with the Cirque de Demain at the World Circus Festival in Paris and Montreal, Schoenfeld is best known for his tableaux vivants. The Rape of the Sabine Women and Icons/Iconoclasts have appeared in many publications including Harpers Bazarr and American Photo Magazine and.exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Canada, throughout Europe and Asia.

Schoenfeld’s images are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), Cirque du Soleil (Montreal), National Museum -Complesso del Vittoriano (Rome), County Arts Commission (Santa Barbara). Schoenfeld’s figurative work has gained increasing recognition since his first published book of nudes in 2004, Surface Tension.

International art critic, Peter Frank said Schoenfeld’s nude images are "Challenging photos...
Images that treat the body simultaneously as sentient organism and as sculpture - voluptuously charged... These photos conjure Canova, Stieglitz, Dega and Modigliani –heroic.”

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