Born in Stockholm in 1944, Petersen studied photography under Christer Str\u00f6mholm at his famous Fotoskalen from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book of reportage, Caf\u00e9 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 \u2014a bar on Hamburg\u2019s Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts, and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm-hearted family of non-conformists with whom he identified. In 1970, he co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, and has since gone on taking photographs in his own unique fashion, following the rhythms of his own life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Format: Softcover
\nPages: 144
\nArtwork: 64 duotone photographs
\nSize: 5 in x 7.5 in x 0.5 in
\nPublished: May 20th, 2014
\nISBN-10: 0500411085 ISBN-13: 9780500411087
\nSeries: Photofile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[48],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3553","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-book","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analoog.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}