Anders Petersen - Photofile urbanism the importance of memory

the importance of memory

In his characteristically analytical and associative manner

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But the little girl’s hairdresser is less than impressed to find not just moss but also moths in its fur – and by the time our sleepy sloth has finished its morning walk

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Anders Petersen - Photofile urbanism the importance of memoryBorn in Stockholm in 1944, Petersen studied photography under Christer Strmholm from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book Caf Lehmitz, which was first published in 1978 and is now recognized as one of the classics of post war European photography. In it, he captured a time and place now long gone a bar on Hamburgs Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm hearted family of non