Artist and photographer A.T. Schaefer was born in 1944. Now baesed in Stuttgart, he uses the camera and color film to record objects and situations in daily life, his habitual environment and places from his travels. The products from this activity, however, are unexpected and radical. His aim is not to reproduce the situational reality of his subjects, but to set free the autonomous aesthetic potential of the photographically created picture. What emerges and impresses is not the reality of motif, but that of the photograph in itself. It accords with his origins in painting that A.T. Schaefer forms his pictures into compositions of the most vivid presence and precision, and whose "real" subject is color.