Fängelse

Anders Petersen

BOO 2258 U
€145,00
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CONDITION & NOTES
Good / Dust jacket has minor discolouration and some wear to the edges. Sticker residue on the rear side. Exterior of the book has some minor edge wear. Book block is very slightly wavey.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

1984

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

Swedish

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
ETC - P.A. Norstedt & Söners 30.5 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm
CONDITION
Good / Dust jacket has minor discolouration and some wear to the edges. Sticker residue on the rear side. Exterior of the book has some minor edge wear. Book block is very slightly wavey.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
1984

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
Swedish

PUBLISHER
ETC - P.A. Norstedt & Söners

DIMENSIONS
30.5 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm

ABOUT

After seeing one photograph made by Christer Strömholm (a cemetery at night with dark footprints in the snow), Petersen went back to Sweden to meet and study photography with Strömholm between 1966 and 1968. Then he returned to Hamburg, where over the course of several years and many many late nights, he took the photos that became his first book, Cafè Lehmitz.

 

Since then, he has gone on to publish more than 20 books, almost all of which feel like personal diaries of his experiences with people and places that are only encountered in the outskirts of towns or under cover of darkness.

 

For an extend period of time, he practically lived in a high-security prison to make the photographs for his 1984 book, Fängelse. He has also documented, in his highly personal style, the people in an insane asylum, and others living in a home for old people. In each body of work, Anders Petersen forces us to regard — from often uncomfortably close vantage points — situations and people that most of us would avoid at all costs. Yet, what he reveals is tenderness, beauty, and common humanity.