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Anders Petersen (photographer)

Anders Petersen (born 1944) is a Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm. He makes intimate and personal documentary-style black and white photographs. Petersen has published more than 20 books. He has had exhibitions at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Liljevalchs konsthall, MARTa Herford, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Biography

Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs.

For three years beginning in 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany. The resulting photobook was first published in 1978 by Schirmer/Mosel in Germany. Café Lehmitz has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography. One of the photographs from this series was used as the cover art for Tom Waits' album Rain Dogs.

Petersen's first book Gröna Lund (Green Grove), which was published in 1973, is set in the amusement park of Gröna Lund situated on an island in Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1970 Petersen co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, with Kenneth Gustavsson. At the same time, he taught at Christer Strömholm's school. He has been director of the Göteborg School of Photography and Film. He began to photograph for magazines, and continued his personal photo diary work, which continues to this day. He has photographed for extensive periods of time in prisons, mental asylums, and elderly care homes.

Publications

  • Gröna Lund = Green Grove.
  • Stockholm: Fyra Förläggare, 1973. Text by Arnaud Cottebrune.
  • Villejuif, France: Aman Iman, 2009. . Edition of 300 copies.
  • Villejuif, France: Aman Iman, 2013. .
  • Pyramyd Editions, 2013. French-language version.
  • Café Lehmitz.
  • Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1978.
  • French edition, 1979.
  • Stockholm: ETC Förlags, 1982. . Text by Roger Andersson.
  • Germany: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1985. . Paperback.
  • Fängelse = Prison. ETC; Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1984. . Text by Leif G. W. Persson.
  • RÃ¥gÃ¥ng till Kärleken = On the line of love. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1991. . Text by Göran Odbratt.
  • Karnevalen i Venedig ETC Förlag, 1991.
  • Ingen har sett allt = Nobody has seen it all. 1995.
  • Du Mich Auch = Same to you. Stockholm: Journal, 2002.
  • Close/Distance. 2002.
  • Anders Petersen. Photo Poche No. 98. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2004. .
  • Anders Petersen. Photofile. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. .
  • Roma, a diary. 2005.
  • Sète # 08. France: Images En Manœuvres Editions - CétàVOIR, 2008. /
  • French kiss Stockport, Cheshire: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008.
  • Dear Diary. 2009.
  • From Back Home. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2009. . With JH Engström. Edited by Greger Ulf Nilson.
  • City Diary. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2009. In three volumes. .
  • Strange Evidence. Self-published / Createspace, 2012. . Contains the images from the exhibition Mark Cohen: Strange Evidence curated by Peter Barbiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010/2011.
  • Rome, a diary 2012. Rome: Punctum, 2012. Edition of 40 copies.
  • Soho. London: Mack and The Photographers' Gallery, 2012. .
  • Veins. With Jacob Aue Sobol. Stockport, Cheshire: Dewi Lewis, 2013. .
  • Rome Collected photographs from three trips to Rome in 1984, 2005 and 2012. Curated by Marco Delogu in collaboration with Flavio Scollo.
  • Rome. Paperback. Köln: Walther König; Rome: Punctum, 2014. .
  • Rome. Hardback. Köln: Walther König; Rome: Punctum, 2014. Edition of 150 copies with signed print.

Exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Petersen's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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