Horst Schäfer (b. 1932) is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist born in Bruchertseifen, Germany. Schäfer entered the world of photography in the Düsseldorf in the 1950s, a period of post-war reconstruction for the city. He emigrated to New York in 1961 and became an early employee of the New York office of Agence France-Press (AFP) and gained access to the important press agencies and trade magazines. He worked as a professional photographer for news and press organizations, including Time magazine. His image series and photographic reports from those years have been published around the world in magazines on every continent. In 1980, he moved back to Germany and focused on photographing city life and architecture.