PETERSEN, Anders - Café Lehmitz (2022) - AS SIGNED COPY!

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Background information, content

"'Cafe Lehmitz', a standing beer hall at the end of Hamburg's Reeperbahn, was a meeting place and often the terminus for many working in Hamburg's notorious red light district: prostitutes, pimps, transvestites, stooges and ordinary petty criminals.
Swedish photographer Anders PETERSEN, was eighteen years old when he came from Sweden to visit Hamburg, landed by chance in Lehmitz and made friendships that should mark his future life. His recordings, which were published in book form in 1978, have now become classics of their genre and still touch on their openness and their unadulterated authenticity.
It is the solidaristic, BRASSAI-like gaze of the Swedish photographer, who gives neither voyeurism nor false compassion in the face of these images from an environment commonly referred to as antisocial. The other world of the 'Cafe Lehmitz', which no longer exists today, becomes visible as a living social structure with its own self-image and in its own dignity." (© Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1978))

Additional information

The photo volume 'Cafe Lehmitz' by Anders PETERSEN has been published in many different editions since 1978. In addition to the classic edition from Germany, which was gradually supplemented with English and French, it was published by foreign publishers in Swedish, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, among others. A complete edition with all available contact sheets has been in preparation for years.

About Swedish photographer Anders PETERSEN (b.1944)

Photo books by as well as with works by Anders PETERSEN