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Knut Anders Fredrik Petersen (born May 3, 1944 in Solna ) is a Swedish photographer .

Life

Anders Petersen studied photography with Christer Strömholm in Stockholm in 1966/1967 . He visited Hamburg for the first time at the age of 18 and happened upon Café Lehmitz , a beer bar on the Reeperbahn . When he visited again in 1968, he began to photograph the guests. The recordings he made over the course of three years were published in book form in 1978. His photo Lily and Rose , which served as the LP cover for Tom Wait's 1985 album Rain Dogs , became particularly famous .

Café Lehmitz is now regarded as classics of the milieu Photography : "While men drunk on the bodice fumble deranged women, is for the moment between Wettsauferei, free divestments and pointless cockfights in the deep black grit mm photography all right. Without a doubt, Petersen succeeded in engaging in the best hours of the desperate. "

Together with Kenneth Gustavsson , Petersen founded the Stockholm photographer group SAFTRA in 1970, at the same time he taught at the Christer Strömholms photography school.

Petersen has published over 20 books since then; they were compared with “diaries of his experiences with people and places that one only encounters on the outskirts or under cover of darkness.” Petersen et al. a. Photographed in prisons, nursing homes and psychiatric clinics.

From November 2013 to February 2014, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris hosted an extensive exhibition devoted to Petersen's work in retrospect in 330 photographs. The official exhibition catalog with a foreword by Urs Stahel and Hasse Persson was published in French by the BnF. The illustrated book was published in English by Thames & Hudson and in German by Schirmer / Mosel .

The retrospective exhibition was on view in the Munich City Museum from March 27th to June 28th, 2015 .

Awards

Works

  • Grona Lund . Fyra Förläggare, Helsingborg 1973.
  • with Mona Larsson & Stefan F Lindberg : En dag på cirkus Cavefors Förlag, Stockholm 1976.
  • Café Lehmitz . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1978.
  • Fängelse . Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm 1984.
  • Rågång till Kärleken . Norstedts Förlag, 1991.
  • with Ralph Nykvist : Carnival in Venice ETC Förlag & Kalejdoskop, 1991.
  • Ingen har sett allt . Legus, Rolf & Co., Stockholm 1995.
  • with Christer Strömholm and Kenneth Gustavsson : Indications. Journal, Stockholm 1996.
  • Photographs 1966-1996 . Journal, Stockholm 1997.
  • I love you, do you love me too? Damage and Damage, Cologne 2002.
  • You me too . Journal, Stockholm 2002.
  • Close Distance . Journal, Stockholm 2002.
  • Photo Poche - Anders Petersen . Actes Sud, Arles 2004.
  • Roma, A Diary . Zone Attive, 2005.
  • frenchkiss . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008.
  • Set # 08 . Images En Maneuvers, 2008.
  • with JH Engström : From Back Home Max Ström, 2009.
  • Dear Diary (lim. Ed. 350). Gun Gallery, Stockholm 2009.
  • City Diary 3 volumes. Steidl, Göttingen 2011.
  • Soho . Mack Books, London 2012.
  • To belong . Studio Blanco, 2013.
  • with Jacob Aue Sobol : Veins Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013.
  • Photo file - Anders Petersen . Thames & Hudson, 2013.
  • Monograph . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2013.
  • Rome 1984-2005 - 2012 . Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-461-9 .
  • Valparaiso . André Frère Editions, Roquevaire 2015, ISBN 979-10-92265-33-0 .
  • Color Lehmitz . Cabeza de Chorlito, Madrid 2017, ISBN 978-84-939682-7-4 .
  • Okinawa . T&M Projects, 2018, ISBN 978-4-909442-07-9 .
  • Stockholm . Max Ström, Göteborg 2019, ISBN 978-91-7126-486-2 .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Documentaries

  • Speaking of Anders Petersen (A film about with Anders Petersen) . Director: JH Engström , 2006
  • Utan long ingen image (Without desire, no image) . Directed by Stefan Bladh , 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Erdmann Ziegler : Tristesse oblige - Anders Petersen's Café Lehmitz. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 15, 2004.
  2. ^ Contribution to Anders Petersen's work (with interview) ( memento from April 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at lensculture.com
  3. ↑ official press information on the exhibition in the BnF
  4. ↑ Éditions de la BnF Anders Petersen (French edition)
  5. ↑ Anders Petersen - Retrospective ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Munich City Museum
  6. ↑ Anders Petersen receives Dr.-Erich-Salomon Prize 2008 ( Memento of February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), communication from the Swedish Embassy
  7. ↑ Contribution to Anders Petersen's work at Fokussiert.com
  8. ↑ Sink quickly, gradually rot. In: FAZ . April 17, 2015, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Documentation: A film about with Anders Petersen by JH Engström
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Anders
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Knut Anders Fredrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Solna