Anders Petersen - Le Bistrot d'Hambourg - 1979

Le Bistrot d’Hambourg – Anders Petersen (French edition) 1979

A bar in Hamburg which, for its decadent image, inspired the photographs of the Swedish photographer, to such an extent that this book became a real object of cult, a manifesto of the 1970s. Petersen began photographing Lehmitz not with the aim of pursuing a social inquiry, but simply by cultivating a diary-like approach to the people and events. Drugs, prostitution, cross-dressing and life outside the rules were the ingredients of the small world photographed by Anders Petersen, a precursor with Ed Van Der Elsken, of a photographic genre that, especially in the United States, would inspire the style of authors now internationally known as Nan Goldin or Larry Clark.

Small stamp of prior ownership on the first blank page (visible in the photo)