Anders Petersen (photographer)

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

Life

Anders Petersen studied at 1966-1967 Christer Strömholm in Stockholm Photography. At 18, he first visited Hamburg, where it was randomly into "Café Lehmitz ", a beer bar on the Reeperbahn. In a recent visit in 1968, he began to photograph the guests. His incurred in the course of three years photographs were published in 1978 in book form; Café Lehmitz is now regarded as classics of the milieu photography: " While men drunken fumble at the bodice deranged women, is for this moment between Wettsauferei, free divestments and senseless cockfights in the deep black grain of the small-format photography all right. Without a doubt it's Petersen managed to plug into the best hours of the desperate. "

Together with Kenneth Gustavsson founded Petersen 1970, the Stockholm group of photographers SAFTRA, at the same time he taught in the school photographer Christer current spar.

Petersen has since published more than 20 books; they were compared with " diaries of his experiences with people and places encountered at most on the outskirts or in the cover of darkness. " Petersen photographed inter alia, in prisons, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals. His newest book from 2012, published by the London gallery The Photographer 's Gallery and provided by the gallery owner Brett Rogers with an epilogue.

Awards

Exhibition

  • 2011: Anders Petersen - city diary, art collection Jena
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