Horst Schäfer (photographer)

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Horst Schäfer (* 1932 in Bruchertseifen , Westerwald ) is a German photographer .

Life

From 1945 Schäfer lived in Düsseldorf . There he began to take photos in 1954. In 1956 he became a member of the Düsseldorf Photo Club. He has been working as a professional photographer since 1959. Schäfer emigrated to North America in 1960; he initially lived in Calgary and Edmonton ( Canada ). A year later he moved to New York . There he first worked for the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), then he became a freelancer for Bernsen's International Press Service (BIPS), for which he created photo reports. From 1963 to 1974 Schäfer was a photographer for the New York Racing Association . From 1974 to 1978 he worked in Denver as a commercial and architectural photographer , including for Time Magazine and Newsweek . After two years as a photographer for the daily newspaper Colorado Springs Sun, Schäfer returned to Germany in 1980 . From 1980 he worked for the news agency Associated Press (AP), initially in Munich , from 1981 in Nuremberg , responsible for the region of Northern Bavaria . Schäfer has been a freelance photographer since 1993. Schäfer's aesthetic is influenced by the subjective photography of the 1950s. In addition to the temporary focus on horse racing , he is mainly interested in city photography. He pursues two very different approaches: In architectural photography he works out structures and textures - up to almost complete abstraction. In his reportage photographs , Schäfer revisits city life in all its facets. He prefers everyday scenes over events and captures the mood of the moment.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Horst Schäfer + Lena Mayer, Galeriehaus Defet / photo scene nuremberg
  • 2015 Horst Schäfer - Benrath . Museum for European Garden Art Schloss Benrath , Düsseldorf
  • 2013 Fürther Fenster, Kunstraum Rosenstrasse, Fürth
  • 2012 Bridges, Galerie Röver, Nuremberg
    • Light and Shadow, Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg
  • 2009 Horst Schäfer, Luova Gallery, Helsinki , Finland
  • 2007 The known and the unknown, Horst Schäfer, Städtische Galerie, Erlangen
  • 2006 Horst Schäfer, photographs 1960-1997, Raab Galerie, Berlin
  • 2005 Horst Schäfer Architecture, AION Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    • Horst Schäfer Works in Black and White, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver
    • Horst Schäfer, City Hall and Camelot Gallery, Krakow
  • 2004 New York Magic and Reality, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
  • 2001 Horst Schäfer sees Nuremberg, Norishalle city archive, Nuremberg
    • Bankfurt, New York University, New York
    • People and Stories, German Photography after 1945, Galerie Zimmer bei Lempertz, Berlin
    • Romantics of Modernism, Camera and Photo Museum, Leipzig
  • 1997 New York - Paris Horst Schäfer Architectural Photography, New Collection , Munich
  • 1996 Horst Schäfer Photographer, Veste Coburg art collections
  • 1967 Weegee and Schäfer, Ligoa Duncan Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1962 Photographs of Horst Schäfer, University of Main, Orono , Maine , USA

Awards

  • 1968: Turf Writer's Association Press Photo Award for Outstanding Press Photographer of the Year 1968
  • 2002: City of Nuremberg Prize

Publications (selection)

  • New Look at New York - Horst Schäfer's Photographs , in: US Camera, No. 5, 1962
  • Horst Schäfer. New York - Structures of Architecture, in: Nike. European Photograph, special issue, May 1, 1994, ISSN  0947-2584
  • The tower clock lets time run its course. Transylvania in pictures by Horst Schäfer, Munich 1994
  • Horst Schäfer Photograph, Munich, Berlin 1996
  • Kerstin Möller, the photographer. A conversation with the photographer Horst Schäfer, in: Nürnberger Nachrichten , December 14, 1996
  • Horst Schäfer. Work, Nuremberg 1997
  • Views: Mögeldorf. Photographs by Horst Schäfer, Nuremberg 1998
  • Horst Schäfer - Freedom from Fürth. A photographic walk, Cadolzburg 1999, ISBN 3-89716-084-6
  • Nuremberg views. Forays through a terribly beautiful city. Photographs by Horst Schäfer, ed. by Steffen Radlmaier, Cadolzburg 1999
  • Horst Schäfer sees Nuremberg. Photographs 1982 - 2000, Nuremberg 2001
  • Horst Schäfer. Düsseldorf around 1960, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-933749-87-5
  • New York in the Sixties. Horst Schäfer, Cadolzburg 2003, ISBN 3-89716-382-9
  • Rolling fetish and friend. Photos by Horst Schäfer, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 23, 2006
  • Light look. Church pictures by Horst Schäfer, ed. by Hans-Peter Weigel, Bamberg 2007
  • Regina Urban, walking along to the rhythm of everyday life. A feeling for the right moment: the photographer Horst Schäfer turns 75, in: Nürnberger Nachrichten, November 15, 2007
  • Nuremberg - New York. Horst Schäfer, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-928591-96-6
  • Horst Schäfer. Photographs, exhibition cat. Kunsthalle Erfurt , 2008
  • Nuremberg pictures from 150 years. A photographic journey through time, ed. by Helmut Beer, Nuremberg 2008
  • Poetry visual. The Hermannshof cultural monument . Photographs by Horst Schäfer, Springe 2009
  • Horst Schäfer, Benrath photographs from the 1950s and 1960s. Düsseldorf 2015; Exhibition cat. Museum for European Garden Art Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, ISBN 978-3-89978-239-4

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