Anders Petersen Featured in Aperture

Finding a Fever: JH Engstrom Interviews Anders Petersen

Aperture recently asked photographer JH Engstrom, who once worked as Petersen's assistant, to speak with him about the course of his career and his approach to the medium.

Softcover: 88 pages
Issue No. 198, Spring 2010
Language: English

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City Diary

by Anders Petersen

To Anders Petersen everything is private and what is private is everything. What is private exposes the very nature of humanity, what binds us and what lies between us. Petersen’s photographs almost appear to be the work of a wide-eyed innocent, a young boy in a state of permanent amazement traveling through an alien wonderland with its secret love encounters and bewildering adult conflicts. His pictures are intimate–lovers in the night, people in the street, inmates in Swedish prisons, patrons in a Hamburg bar and disclose often unpleasant details with a probing, somewhat detached eye. In the world of Anders Petersen, all things remain incomprehensible and strange, though often indecently enticing. A woman’s gaze into the camera turns into an unsettling invitation, often of the forbidden kind.

Publisher: Steidl
Paperback: Three volumes, each 64 pages with approx. 55 images
23.4 cm x 31 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86521-536-9

Publication date: April 2010.

Anders Petersen Featured in "The 70s, Photography and Everyday Life"

The mingling of art and socio-political change in the 1970s is a theme throughout this superb volume, a groundbreaking consideration of one decade's art through the lenses of its greatest photographers. The 70s includes about ten photographs by each of the selected artists: Alberto Garcia-Alix, Allan Sekula, Ana Mendieta, Anders Petersen, Carlos Pazos, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, Claudia Andujar, David Goldblatt, Douglas Huebler, Ed van der Elsken, Eugene Richards, Fina Miralles, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Hans-Peter Feldmann, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Karen Knorr, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Malick Sidibe, Sophie Calle, Victor Burgin, Viktor Kolar and William Eggleston. Alongside this parade of great photography, The 70s also includes two illustrated essays by relevant artists of the time, as well as presentation texts of the participating artists and a selection of classic writings on photography published in this decade, by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Allan Sekula and Victor Burgin.

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: La Fabrica (2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8492498773
ISBN-13: 978-8492498772

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From Back Home

by Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom

The land between Klarälven River and the chestnut tree at Ekallén is full of little hard memories of sad and lonely times, but there is also a streak of warm confidence that runs all the way up to Älgsjövallen, a place of fairy tales and inquisitive moose. I am carrying my camera, shooting these old dreams through the foliage. It means my memories can never be destroyed, because they no longer end in themselves.
-Anders Petersen

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Bokförlaget Max Ström (2009)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-91-7126-164-9

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Séte 08

by Anders Petersen and Christian Caujolle

Petersen visited Séte, a French port and sea-side resort located on the Mediterranean Sea, as a pretext to harvest a collection of images full of precision, emotion and surprises. Astutely aware of the human dimension that he was encountering Petersen’s 65 harsh, grainy black and white photographs, capture the city, its inhabitants and surroundings, finding solace and beauty in the ugly and ordinary.

Hardcover: 94 pages
Publisher: CeTavoir - Images En Manoevres Editions (2008)
Language: English
ISBN: B001U5JPHI

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FrenchKiss

by Anders Petersen

Petersen explores the fringes of society, and his images depict a raw, and sometimes disturbingly brutal, social portrait. Taken in the south of France, FrenchKiss is characteristic Petersen, exuding the poetic sadness, restlessness, and sense of urgency that runs through all his work.

Hardcover: 116 pages
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (September 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904587585
ISBN-13: 978-1904587583

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Cafe Lehmitz

by Anders Petersen

Café Lehmitz, is regarded as seminal in the history of European photography. Old and still new, new yet unchanged - that's the story of Café Lehmitz. It was located near the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany. Open for most of 24 hours, it was frequented by sailors and stokers from all corners of the world. By merchants, dockers and cabdrivers. By prostitutes, striptease dancers and pimps. By poets, small time criminals and other night-revellers. One thing they had in common: they were given the cold shoulder by 'respectable society'. Swedish photographer Anders Petersen came across the place at the end of the Sixties and for nearly three years would spend most of his days and nights near the tables, benches and dance floor where life was lived to the full.
His debut book Café Lehmitz - as dark, wild and rugged as the place itself - was published in 1978. It instantly made his name as a passionated chronicler of unruly daily life.

Hardcover
Publisher: AB Tripod, (1982) (1982)
ISBN-10: 918616804

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Close Distance

by Anders Petersen and Birna Kleivan

Contains 42 recent works of Anders Petersen. The danish Photohistorian and writer Birna Marianne Kleivan says about this book: ' Instinct and dream are conjured up in a series of animalistic photographs, in part providing fascination through their simultaneously transgressive and chaste representation of the primitive and the darker sides of the individual. A world of danger and darkness, full of siren songs and sores that will never heal.'

Hardcover: 60 pages
Publisher: Journal (December 2002)
ISBN-10: 9197418242
ISBN-13: 978-9197418249

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Anders Petersen: Du Mich Auch

I look at these pictures. Old photographs, taken in the late sixties in Hamburg and Stockholm. They bring back memories of kinship, fearfulness, undisguised curiosity and our solidarity. Photography was rarely the main issue. What counted then was meeting people and exploring different realities. The same things still count. Now I see the pictures from a changed perspective. But they link together what was then with what is now. My questions of then are my questions of now. I recognize them, though the answers no longer carry the same weight. So I continue to ask my questions. Be wary of: Nicely formulated principles and truths. Useless feelings of guilt and sins of the past or while we're at it, a photography resembling pretty adjectives. On the other hand, I like private diaries and family albums. -Anders Petersen

Publisher: Journal Publishers
Hardcover: Unpaged, 72 black-and-white illustrations
7-3/4 in x 9-3/4 inches
ISBN 9197362921

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Skyler Brickley

Wall-to-Wall Exhibition Book

The artist's exhibition catalogue published to accompany his first solo exhibition at Marvelli Gallery. Contents include writings by Ethan Greenbaum, Kayla Soyer-Stein, and the artist. Also includes color illustrations and a to-scale poster of one of the paintings in the show. $20.

Paperback: 50 pages
Language: English

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Angela Strassheim

by Marcelle Polednik, Angela Strassheim, E. Michael Whittington

The artist's second monograph published by the Monterey Museum of Art to accompany her solo exhibition. Contents include essay by Marcelle Polednik, color illustrations of the thirty works in the exhibition and foreword by E. Michael Whittington.

Paperback: 78 pages
Publisher: Monterey Museum of Art; 1st edition (2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615249507
ISBN-13: 978-0615249506

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Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

by Susan Fisher Sterling

Features Angela Strassheim

Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography explores how role playing has been central to the art, meaning and social function of contemporary photography. The exhibition breaks new ground by bringing two generations together to show how this practice has evolved. The exhibition catalogue, published by Scala, is a 136-page, large-format book with full-color illustrations and essays by scholars Shelley Rice, Associate Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, and Lucy Souter, writer and artist currently lecturing on photography at The London College of Communication, as well as exhibition curators Susan Fisher Sterling and Kathryn A. Wat.

Hardcover: 136 pages
Publisher: Scala Publishers (November 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857595386
ISBN-13: 978-1857595383

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Angela Strassheim: Left Behind

by Jean Dykstra (Author), Daniel Strong (Editor, Introduction), Angela Strassheim (Photographer

Angela Strassheim's first monograph published for the occasion of her first museum exhibition. The catalog, which reproduces twenty-seven color photographs, includes an essay by Jean Dykstra.

Hardcover: 60 pages
Publisher: Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College (March 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097767794X
ISBN-13: 978-0977677948


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Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes

by John Archer, David Brooks, Robert Bruegmann, Beatriz Colomina, Malcolm Gladwell , Andrew Blauvelt

Features Angela Strassheim (cover)

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Walker Art Center (February 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0935640908
ISBN-13: 978-0935640908

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When Will You Be Satisfied

by Michael St. John

Paperback: 32 pages
Edition of 1000
Publisher: 38th Street Publishers (April, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-9818369-5-9

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Presumed Innocence

by Anne Higonnet and Rachel Lafo

Features Angela Strassheim and Ingar Krauss

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: DeCordova Museum (March 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0945506562
ISBN-13: 978-0945506560

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Von Den Kindern Weiss Man Nichts

by Ingar Krauss

Hardcover
Publisher: Kunsthalle Erfurt
Language: Deutsch

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Most Wanted: The Olbricht Collection

by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Demand, Axel Heil

Features Alex McQuilkin

The important German collector Thomas Olbricht presents a personal selection of his most recent acquisitions, including Maurizio Cattelan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Larry Clark, Thomas Demand, Marlene Dumas, Carroll Dunham, Marcel Dzama, Isaac Julien, Richard Phillips, Alexis Rockman, Gregor Schneider, Taryn Simon, Hiroshi Sugito, Nicola Tyson and Barry X-Ball. As Olbricht writes in the epilogue, 'Collecting art, for me, is an elixir of life Seemingly anything goes and nothing is sure. This productive restlessness makes collecting a great adventure--that's one thing this picture book is meant to tell; another thing is that, for me, the variety of positions I'm continuously concerning myself with combines to become a cosmos full of life.' Contains an illustrated appendix and an introduction by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Hardcover: 294 pages
Publisher: Walther Konig; Bilingual edition (August 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3865600271
ISBN-13: 978-3865600271

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INTO ME / OUT OF ME

by Klaus Biesenbach, Georges Bataille, Susan Sontag

Features Alex McQuilkin

Editor and P.S. 1/MoMA curator Claus Biesenbach credits the late Susan Sontag with sparking the idea for this survey of Body and Action art in the course of their conversations about artistic approaches that describe and question the human condition. Into Me / Out of Me gathers work focused on the imagined, descriptive and performative acts of passing into, through and out of the human body--explorations and visualizations of the wet and the dry, the inner and the outer--and the physical exchange of the body with the material world. Spanning over 40 years and featuring an international group of more than 130 artists, it addresses the primordial relationship between the internal and the external in three chapters: "Metabolism" (eating, drinking, excreting); "Reproduction" (intercourse, conception, birth); and "Violence" (shooting, impaling, perforation). Featured works range from Hannah Wilke's unflinching self-portraits in illness to Matthew Barney's performance-based installations to Kara Walker's antebellum figures.

Paperback: 580 pages
Publisher: Hatje Cantz (August 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3775720413
ISBN-13: 978-3775720410

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