SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase the last edition of "Cafe Lehmitz" by Anders Petersen, this, even after almost 50 years old, still SO IMPRESSIVE PHOTOBOOK CLASSIC. BRANDNEW CONDITION + BODLY SIGNED. 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 Signed by the artist. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. WITH A FOREWORD BY TOM WAITS (who - in 1985 - choosed ‘Lilly and Rose’, the famous cover photo of 'Cafe Lehmitz' for the cover of his album 'Rain Dogs' and is now thanking his friend Anders Petersen with a poetic foreword). New, mint, unread - COLLECTOR'S COPY. THIS IS AN EXCLUSIVE BEST-OF-PHOTOBOOKS AUCTION - by 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany. We guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. 'In print almost continuously since 1978 and long on its way to world fame: Café Lehmitz - as a book, a ‘hotspot’ among all the world's neighbourhood pubs, located in Hamburg at the end of the Reeperbahn. The Swedish photographer Anders Petersen immortalised Café Lehmitz with his tenderly raw photographs.' (from the publisher) Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 2022. Hardcover with dustjacket. 220 x 245 mm. 112 pages. 88 photos. Photos: Anders Petersen. Foreword: Tom Waits. Text: Roger Anderson. Text in German. 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. Perfect condition. Signed by the artist. "Anders Petersen is a Swedish photographer who was born in Stockholm in 1944. He studied at Christer Strömholm’s School of Photography (1966–68) and at Dramatiska Institutet (1973–74). He had his international breakthrough with the photobook Café Lehmitz in 1978, which was followed by about 30 published books. Among prizes and awards can be mentioned: The Arles Photographer of the Year Award, 2003; the Jury’s Special Prize for the exhibition Exaltation of Humanity, during the third international photography festival in Lianzhou, China, 2007; the Dr. Erich Salomon Award of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, 2008; The Arles Contemporary Book Award together with JH Engström for From Back Home, 2009. Furthermore, Petersen received Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation Photo Book of the Year Award, 2012, for City Diary, and Lennart af Petersen’s prize, 2019. Anders Petersen’s work is represented in the collections of Fotografiska Stockholm, The Museum of Modern Art New York, Hasselblad Center Gothenburg, The Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, Centre Pompidou Paris, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris, Museum Folkwang Essen, and Fotomuseum Winterthur, among others. He’s had both solo- and group exhibitions regularly around the world since 1969." (Artnet)