Anders Petersen - Café Lehmitz - 2007
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Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen, 1st Edition Thus, hardback, Rat Hole, Tokyo 2007, 52 pages, English text.
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Café Lehmitz grew out of the nights Anders Petersen spent between 1967 and 1970 in a small bar near Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. There he photographed its regulars: prostitutes, workers, petty criminals, cross-dressers, alcoholics and people who found in the bar a place to gather. Petersen did not work as a distant observer. He frequented the bar for years and built personal relationships with the people in his photographs, creating an extraordinarily intimate portrait of that community.
The images show embraces, alcohol, desire, exhaustion, fights, tenderness and loneliness without turning their subjects into picturesque characters. This closeness is precisely one of the qualities that would later define Petersen’s photography: entering the spaces he photographs and becoming part of them, at least temporarily.
This Japanese edition was published by Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo in 2007 to coincide with the Café Lehmitz exhibition at the gallery. It is a much more compact reinterpretation of the original book published in 1978, with a smaller selection of black-and-white photographs printed full bleed. It also includes a text by Mariko Takeuchi in Japanese and English.
Its small format and burgundy cover, designed to resemble an old café menu, make this Rat Hole edition a particularly distinctive version of Café Lehmitz.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Café Lehmitz grew out of the nights Anders Petersen spent between 1967 and 1970 in a small bar near Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. There he photographed its regulars: prostitutes, workers, petty criminals, cross-dressers, alcoholics and people who found in the bar a place to gather. Petersen did not work as a distant observer. He frequented the bar for years and built personal relationships with the people in his photographs, creating an extraordinarily intimate portrait of that community.
The images show embraces, alcohol, desire, exhaustion, fights, tenderness and loneliness without turning their subjects into picturesque characters. This closeness is precisely one of the qualities that would later define Petersen’s photography: entering the spaces he photographs and becoming part of them, at least temporarily.
This Japanese edition was published by Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo in 2007 to coincide with the Café Lehmitz exhibition at the gallery. It is a much more compact reinterpretation of the original book published in 1978, with a smaller selection of black-and-white photographs printed full bleed. It also includes a text by Mariko Takeuchi in Japanese and English.
Its small format and burgundy cover, designed to resemble an old café menu, make this Rat Hole edition a particularly distinctive version of Café Lehmitz.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Photography
Book title
Café Lehmitz
Author/ Illustrator
Anders Petersen
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
2007
Height
21.5 cm
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Width
15.5 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Rat Hole
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
52
