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About Swedish photographer Anders PETERSEN (b.1944, in Stockholm)
The Swede Anders PETERSEN is one of the most important European photographers. During his long career - he studied together with Christer STRÖMHOLM from 1966 to 1968 - he always broke with conventions. At the latest since its publication as a paperback edition in a major German publishing house (Fischer 1985), the 1970s photo documentary about the legendary 'Café Lehmitz' on the Reeperbahn of St. Pauli made the Swedish photographer famous. Anders PETERSEN has published about thirty photo volumes to date.
Photo books by Anders PETERSEN
Main photobook titles by Anders PETERSEN
- 'Gröna Lund' (1973, 2009, 2013); 'Cafe Lehmitz' (1978, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2022, 2023); 'Photographs 1966–1996' (1997); 'From Back Home' (2009, together with JH ENGSTRÖM); 'Dear Diary' (2009); 'City Diary #1-3' (2011); 'Monographie' (2013); 'Rome 1984–2005 – 2012' (2014); 'Stockholm' (2019); 'City Diary #1-7' (2024); 'The Complete Café Lehmitz Family Album' (announced);
More photo volumes by Anders PETERSEs
- 'Fängelse' (1984); 'Rågång till Kärleken' (1991); 'Karnevalen i Venedig' (1991, with Ralph NYKVIST); 'Ingen har sett allt' (1995); 'Indications' (1996, together with works by Christer STRÖMHOLM and Kenneth GUSTAVSSON); 'Ich Dich lieben, Du mich auch?' (2002); 'Du mich auch.' (2002); 'Close Distance' (2002); 'Photo Poche – Anders Petersen' (2004); 'Roma, A Diary' (2005); 'À propos d'Anders Petersen (A film about with Anders Petersen)' (2006, von JH ENGSTRÖM); 'Frenchkiss' (2008); 'Sete #08' (2008); 'Soho' (2012); 'To belong' (2013); 'Veins' (2013, gemeinsam mit Jacob AUE SOBOL); 'Photofile – Anders Petersen' (2013); 'Valparaiso' (2015); 'Color Lehmitz' (2017); 'Okinawa' (2018); 'Memories people places' (2021); 'Zoo' (announced)
Awards
- 2003: 'The Arles Photographer of the Year Award'
2007: Specialpreis der Jury für die Ausstellung 'Exaltation of Humanity', Third international Photography Festival in Lianzhou, China;
2008: Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie;
2009: 'The Arles Contemporary Book Award zusammen mit JH ENGSTROEM für 'From Back Home';
2012: 'Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation Photo Book of the Year Award' für 'City Diary';
2019: 'Lennart af Petersen’s prize';
Solo exhibitions
- 2002: 'Anders Petersen', Vu' La Galerie, Paris;
2003: 'Ich Dich lieben, Du mich auch?', Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; 'At Touching Distance', Galerie m, Bochum, Germany;
2004: 'photographs 1966-2002', Langhans Gallery, Prague;
2005: 'Cafe Lehmitz/Close Distance', Marvelli Gallery, New York; 'Cafe Lehmitz', Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen; 'Roma, a diary 2005', FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome; 'Anders Petersen', Théâtre La passerelle, Gap, France;
2006: 'Cafe Lehmitz. 1968-1971/Close Distance', Moscow Museum of Modern Art; 'Anders Petersen', Galleri London, Uppsala und Panoptikon Fotografins Hus, Stockholm;
2007: 'Cafe Lehmitz', Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo;
2008: 'Inside', Luova.fi Photographic Gallery, Helsinki;
2009: 'Café Lehmitz' (on the occasion of the awarding of the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis 2008), Nordic Embassies Felleshus, Berlin; 'City Diary', GunGallery, Stockholm;
2010: 'From back home', Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm;
2011: ''City Diary', Kunstsammlung Jena; 'Mental Hospital 1995', Grundemark Nilsson Galerie, Berlin;
2012: 'Mental Gospital', Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam; 'Rome', MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome;
2013: 'Soho', Stieglitz19, Antwerp;
2014: 'Retrospective', Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm and in the Bibliothéque National de France, Paris; 'To Belong', Vu' La Galerie, Paris; 'hors norme', Box Galerie, Brussels; 'From back home', New Manezh Moscow State Exhibition Hall, Moscow; 'The Veins', The State Russian Museum und ROSPHOTO;
2015: 'Retrospektive', Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich;
2016: 'Café Lehmitz revisited', Circulation, Paris; 'Retrospektive', Marta Herford, Germany;
2017: 'Rome', MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome;
2018: 'Café Lehmitz', Freelens Galerie, Hamburg;
2020: 'Color Lehmitz', Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm;
2022: 'Color Lehmitz', Fotografiska, New York City;
2024: Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden;