Anders Petersen - Café Lehmitz - 1985

Café Lehmitz
Anders Petersen

Rare paperback edition published in 1985, absolutely the author’s personal favorite.

A bar in Hamburg which, for its decadent image, inspired the photographs of the Swedish photographer so much as to make this book a real object of cult, a manifesto of the 70s. Petersen began photographing Lehmitz not aiming to conduct a social inquiry, but simply cultivating a diary-like approach to people and events. Drugs, prostitution, cross-dressing and life outside the rules were the ingredients of the small world photographed by Anders Petersen, a pioneer together with Ed Van Der Elsken, of a photographic genre that would inspire the style of authors now internationally known as Nan Goldin, JH Engström or Antoine D’Agata.

Petersen A., Anderson R.; Café Lehmitz. Paperback, 12.5 x 19 cm, 116 pages, German language; Frankfurt am Main, 1985.

The volume presents itself in excellent overall condition. Cover with signs of yellowing but well preserved. Paperback firmly bound. Internal pages clean without creases or stains. An excellent collector’s copy.

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