Toni Schneiders (1920 –2006) was a German photographer.
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Schneiders took up an apprenticeship as a photographer at
Menzel Studio in Koblenz in 1935 graduating with a master's certificate in
1938. During the Second World War he was drafted and would join the Fallschirmjäger
in 1942. He deployed as a war correspondent in France and Italy, famously
capturing Operation Oak on film.
After the war, he returned to Koblenz and photographed reportages as well as advertising and landscape photographs. In 1949 Schneiders co-founded the avant-garde photography group Fotoform. With their graphically designed images, the Fotoform photographers referred to the photographic trends of the 1920s and early 1930s and drew attention to the creative possibilities of photography.
Toni Schneiders' images are distinguished from those of his
companions by their sensitive capturing of people in everyday life.
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