Anders Petersen

World renowned phoptographer Anders Petersen explores the fringes of society with these haunting, documentary-style black-and-white photographs. The photographs found in this collection exude the poetic sadness, restlessness and sense of urgency that is characteristic of all of Petersen's work. The images are a raw, brutal and sometimes disturbing portrait of society set against the stunning backdrop of the south of France.

A new title in the accessible and affordable Photofile series Born in Stockholm in 1944, Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm at his famous Fotoskalen from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book of reportage, Café Lehmitz, which was first published in 1978 and is now recognized as one of the classics of post-war European photography. In it, he captured a time and place now long gone —a bar on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts, and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm-hearted family of non-conformists with whom he identified. In 1970, he co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, and has since gone on taking photographs in his own unique fashion, following the rhythms of his own life.

Born in Stockholm in 1944, Anders Petersen is undoutedly one of the world's most important photographers of the last 40 years. In 1978 he published Caf Lehmitz, which established his international reputation and is now recognised as one of the classic photobooks of the 20th century. Jacob Aue Sobol is a member of Magnum Photos. A winner of the 'European Publishers Award For Photography' and of a 'World Press Photo Award', he gained international recognition with his book Sabine which was the result of a three year period spent on the East Coast of Greenland.

Summary: Anders Petersen and J.H. Engström are world renowned photographers, both originally from Värmland in western Sweden. Their new book "From back home" is one of the strongest photographic stories in many years about a Sweden far from the big city.

"To me, it's all about people ... what they do, what they believe, their dreams, hopes, visions and virtues." -Anders Petersen Since the 1960s, Anders Petersen (born 1944) has traveled extensively and photographed life beyond the margins of polite society for his acclaimed City Diaries. The first of this series received the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award in 2012.

Petersen discovers the gritty in the beautiful and the beautiful in the gritty This is the sixth installment in Anders Petersen's (born 1944) acclaimed series. Petersen's world of prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics and night-time lovers indicates his passion to identify and engage with subcultures and "life in the shadows."

This classic work of analog photojournalism—focusing on the idiosyncratic denizens of an iconic bar in the red-light district of Hamburg, Germany—is now available in a gorgeous new edition that features a tribute by musician and actor Tom Waits. Photographer Anders Petersen was hanging out at a dive bar on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1968 when someone grabbed his camera from the table where he was sitting and started taking pictures. Petersen used the opportunity to photograph the culprit—and the rest of the bar’s motley crew of patrons. The resulting project is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, a celebration of a gritty city at the tail end of the sixties, and the cornerstone of Petersen’s storied career. The images have become classics of their genre; Tom Waits used one for the cover of his legendary album Rain Dogs. Their candidness and authenticity remain as eloquent today as when they were first published in 1978. This sumptuously produced reissue features a new foreword by Waits, and is certain to find a new audience, who will appreciate the stunning analog photography and its elegiac collective portrait of the fringes of society.