Toni Schneiders is one of the most influential photographers in Germany. Through his work with “fotoform” and “subjective photography,” he made a decisive contribution to renewing and expanding the visual language of the photographic avant-garde after 1945.
In his immediate surroundings in the Alpine foothills and on his travels around the world, Toni Schneiders captured striking moments of reality and life in photographs whose protagonists could be a person, an object or a landscape.
In his precisely composed photographs, Toni Schneiders discovered the beauty of graphic form in simple, everyday things. Through deliberate framing and an emphasis on surface and line, contour and structure, he created images of great clarity, while simultaneously approaching his subjects from a human perspective, with humour and empathy.
To mark his 100th birthday, the F.C. Gundlach Foundation dedicates a comprehensive retrospective to this important photographer, rediscovering him as a portraitist and as a travel, industrial and landscape photographer.
A collaboration between the F.C. Gundlach Foundation and Kunstfoyer München.
Edited by Sebastian Lux
296 pages, 260 illustrations
Half-cloth binding 24 × 29 cm
German
ISBN 978-3-95829-721-0 First edition, February 2020
