Café Lehmitz (Special edition with print)
Anders Petersen
Café Lehmitz (Special edition with print)
Photographs: Anders Petersen
Publisher: Rat Hole
48 pages
Year: 2007
Comments: Hardcover without any dust jacket as issued with an original print housed in an extra slipcase! Edt signed and numbered on the print of 5 for a special edition. The entire special editon is 50 in total with 10 different prints (5 each). RARE
Hamburg, 1967. A young Swedish man stealthily opened the door of a bar on the fringe of the Reeperbahn red-light district. With a camera over his shoulder, his heart beat slightly faster with nostalgia and expectation.
The bar was called Café Lehmitz. Anders Petersen was eighteen when he dropped by this town last - leaving home as fleeing. The first place he felt the warmth of human kindness was here, in this hang-out for dregs of society such as prostitutes, petty criminals, transvestites, day laborers, drug addicts.
Five years or so had passed since then. He found that most of his comrades of that time had passed away from too much alcohol, drug abuse, and the harsh living conditions. Despite this, Café Lehmitz was dense with that distinctive atmosphere of his youth. This time, there was a camera in his hand. He then, spent nearly three years shooting the denizens of this bar. Thus was born the masterpiece Café Lehmitz.
It was a place seethed with momentary drunken joy, laughter, and exposed desires. Dancing starts from somewhere sometimes ends in scuffle, and joy turns into tears at some time or other. His camera does not keep the people at distance but instead embraces them in all their filth. If there was something that could be called humanism in there, it would be nothing but the spirit of absolute acceptance of people's darkness, vulgarity and loneliness in all its ugliness.
Whose story is this? Do they nothing more than snaps of German drunks? There would be no question as to why all editors at the time refused to publish these photographs. However, within a few years of his eshibition in Arles in 1977, this series was published in Germany, France, and Sweden. It established his reputation as a representing photographer fSweden, post Christer Strömholm. Just as the photographs of Brassai's nights of Paris in the 1930s or Elsken's young people at Saint-Germain. desPrés in the 1950s, these photographs have the power to irresistibly shake up sleeping emotions and desires deep inside people's soul. This is no one else's story but that of ourselves too.
He calls these photographs his family album. In 1970, when his first exhibition was held at the Lehmitz with three hundred and fifty photographs on the wall, he left to Sweden with the words that if people recognized themselves in the pictures, they could keep them. When he returned 10 years later, there was only one faded photo left on the wall. It was photo of no one but Petersen himself.
"Mariko Takeuchi"
more books by Anders Petersen
-
Ingen har sett allt
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Soho
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Café Lehmitz
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Café Lehmitz
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Café Lehmitz
by Anders Petersen
sold -
City Diary
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Okinawa (signed)
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Dear Diary (Signed and numbered, edt of 350)
by Anders Petersen
sold -
NAPOLI
by Anders Petersen
sold -
Close distance (SIGNED)
by Anders Petersen
Euro 90
more books tagged »original print« | >> see all
-
THE BAD SON (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Harmony Korine
sold -
August Song (LTD SIGNED EDT OF 25 COPIES WITH 5 PRINTS)
by Martin Bogren
sold -
Here silence stands like heat (Limited edition of 7 copies)
by Olli Bery
Euro 1200 -
Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner Special Edition (Sig...
by Issei Suda
Euro 600 -
Camps Disciplinaires (Signed and numbered)
by Klavdij Sluban
sold -
TOURMALINE (Special edition of 100 copies with print, numbered...
by Yusuf Sevinçli
sold
more books tagged »anders petersen« | >> see all
more books tagged »rat hole gallery« | >> see all
-
CHILDHOOD
by Osamu Wataya
Euro 50 -
Juvenile
by Osamu Wataya
Euro 35 -
Agenda 2001
by Osamu Wataya
Euro 45 -
The Joy of Portraits (Signed)
by Keizo Kitajima
Euro 300 -
Kirishin (SIGNED)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
Euro 120
more books tagged »special edition« | >> see all
-
PINE VALLEY (SPECIAL SIGNED LTD EDT WITH PRINT)
by Robert Adams
sold -
SACRE (SPECIAL EDT OF 22 COPIES WITH PRINT)
by Elie Monferier
sold -
HIRED HAND (Special edt with print)
by Collective
Euro 90 -
Gûyu - Allegory (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Maki
sold -
Passenger (Special Edition 29/30)
by Martin Bogren
Euro 400 -
Three (SPECIAL EDITION WITH 3 PRINTS)
by Machiel Botman
Euro 1400
more books tagged »night« | >> see all
-
Rojyo no Kouun (SIGNED)
by Toshio Sakai
Euro 90 -
Mais la nuit ne part pas pour autant
by Xiaoliang HUANG
sold -
Shadow's Praise (SIGNED)
by David Nissen
Euro 55 -
NIGHTCLUB (EDT OF 30 WITH A PRINT)
by Pol Groene
sold -
Bill Henson (ltd Edition + Signed C Print)
by Bill Henson
sold -
Pérégrinations Nocturnes vols 1, 2 & 3 (Signed edt of 50)
by Thomas Cheveux
sold
more books tagged »extremely limited« | >> see all
-
Cette façon qu'elle avait d'habiter tout son corps
by Collective
sold -
WALLS (SPECIAL EDITION OF 12 LAST ONE)
by Lorenzo Castore
Euro 150 -
PXL CTY Film (edt of 35)
by Antony Cairns
sold -
La Trajectoire du Gyrovague (ONLY 70 COPIES WITH A PRINT)
by Constantin Schlachter
Euro 235 -
Paris Umbrae (ONLY 130 COPIES)
by Edouard Mortec
sold -
Actors Rule the World (Edt of 10)
by Bebe Blanco Agterberg
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com