By Edwin Howard, Memphis Business Journal, September, 1988
Wendi Schneider, a prize-winning New Orleans photographer who grew up in Memphis, is showing a number of intriguing black-and-white and painted photographs in the Theatre Memphis lobby starting the run of Kismet.
I particularly like her still-lifes, including the oil-tinted
Calla Lilies and the charming Overture III, and her photos of sculpture and architectural detailing in London and Paris. Ram's Head, Royal Academy, London makes the ram come alive through an almost imperceptible blurring achieved by slight camera movement. And she captures the heartbeat of Paris in Notre Dame. in which modern building blocks are viewed over ancient cathedral gargoyles, wearing mourning veils as they await restoration.
She is also showing a number of photographs of enigmatic models in antique clothing, which might have been done for Vogue or Harper's Bazaar.