Anders Petersen - Photofile urbanism American Scones

American Scones

the importance of memory

the book has firmly established itself as an artistic medium for photography

God and Image

the glittering jewels of a nighttime cityscape

Anders Petersen - Photofile urbanism American SconesBorn in Stockholm in 1944, Petersen studied photography under Christer Strmholm from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book Caf 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 Hamburgs Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm hearted family of non