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Petersen Anders
Café Lehmitz (second-hand)
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"I knew I had to stay within these four walls and photograph the people within these four walls. I saw that Lehmitz was unique - a meeting place for the weak, dispensing sympathy and understanding, but at the same time the end of the line." A.P.
- Shirmer/Mosel (2004)
- Reprint
- German / English
- 90 pages
- 24,7 x 21,7 cm
- ISBN : 9783829600729
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Café Lehmitz, a beer joint at the end of the Reeperbahn, was a meeting point and often also the end of the road for many who workerd in Hamburg's notorious red-light district : prostitutes, pimps, transvestites, workers and petty criminals. Anders Petersen, born in 1944 in Sweden, was 18 when he first visited Hamburg, chanced upon Café Kehmitz and established friends that made an impact on his life. In 1968 he returned to Lehmitz, found a new "regulars", renewed contact and began to photograph intermittently for two years.
His photos, which Schirmer/ Mosel published for the first time in book form in 1978, have become classics of their genre - Tom Waits used the cover picture for his LP Rain Dogs. Their candidness and authenticity continue to move the viewer.