Anders Petersen - Cafe Lehmitz (FIRST PRINTING WORLDWIDE) - 1978

PHOTOBOOK CLASSIC by Swedish photographer Anders Petersen -
here in the WORLDWIDE TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL VINTAGE PRINTING from 1978 (!).

A MUST-HAVE TITLE FOR EVERY AMBITIOUS PHOTOBOOK COLLECTION.

- Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 230/231
- The Open Book, The Hasselblad Center, page 318
- 802 photobooks of the M. + M. Auer Collection, page 566

'Café Lehmitz' was published in Petersen's homeland Sweden for the first time four (!) years later (1982); reprinted many times, but the original is in my opinion still the best version.

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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 1978. First German edition, first printing.

Paperback with jacket. 240 x 210 mm. 116 pages. 88 black and white photographs. Photos: Anders Petersen. Text by Roger Anderson. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket impressive, complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts, but with the typical defects regarding yellowing and edge lamination issues. Overall very good condition.

Fantastic photobook title - after more than 3 decades of collecting, after all these years, and after having thousands of photobooks in my hand, still one of my favourite photobooks ever.
True first printing worldwide.

"Anders Petersen, born 1944, is a Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm. He makes intimate and personal documentary-style black and white photographs. Petersen has published more than 20 books. He has had exhibitions at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Liljevalchs konsthall, MARTa Herford, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs.
For three years beginning in 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany. The resulting photobook was first published in 1978 by Schirmer/Mosel in Germany. Café Lehmitz has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography. One of the photographs from this series was used as the cover art for Tom Waits' album Rain Dogs.
Petersen's first book Gröna Lund (Green Grove), which was published in 1973, is set in the amusement park of Gröna Lund situated on an island in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 1970 Petersen co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, with Kenneth Gustavsson. At the same time, he taught at Christer Strömholm's school. He has been director of the Göteborg School of Photography and Film. He began to photograph for magazines, and continued his personal photo diary work, which continues to this day. He has photographed for extensive periods of time in prisons, mental asylums, and elderly care homes."
(Wikipedia)