Color Lehmitz

Color Lehmitz by Anders Petersen. First edition first impression hardback in new condition. Signed by Anders Petersen to front end page. No markings. This is a new book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About Color Lehmitz

In 1967 Petersen started photographing the customers of a bar called Café Lehmitz in Hamburg. He kept coming there for a period of almost three years and in 1970 Café Lehmitz hosted Petersen's first solo exhibition, with 350 photographs nailed to the wall. All sorts of people went to Cafe Lehmitz: locals, people from the harbour and surrounding cities, as well as a lot of elderly prostitutes. Café Lehmitz, first published in 1978, is an affectionate portrayal of the regular visitors of this late night bar. This new book shows the images that Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets of the period, with signs, signals and colours.

About Anders Petersen

Anders Petersen was born 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. 14 years old his family moved to Karlstad in Värmland, where he met the artists ?Karin Bodland and Lars Sjögren. In 1961 he stayed for some time in Hamburg in order to learn German and trying to write and paint. He didn’t take any pictures. Five years later he met Christer Strömholm and became a student at his School of Photography in Stockholm. Strömholm was not just his teacher but also a close friend. Their friendship influenced him for life. In 1967 he starts photographing a bar called Café Lehmitz in Hamburg, close to Zeughausmarkt. He was photographing there for a period of almost three years and in 1970 he had his first soloexhibition over the bar in Café Lehmitz with 350 photographs nailed to the wall.

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