✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Anders Petersen|307/1000

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Anders Petersen is a Swedish photographer known for his intimate and personal documentary-style black and white photographs [1]. He was born in 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967, and Strömholm became a close friend and influential figure in his life [2].

One of Petersen's notable works is his series of photographs taken at Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany, where he captured the late-night regulars including prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers, and drug addicts. This series was published in 1978 as the photobook "Café Lehmitz" and is considered a seminal book in the history of European photography [1].

Petersen has published more than 20 books throughout his career, including "Gröna Lund" (Green Grove) in 1973, which depicts people in an amusement park in Stockholm, and "From Back Home" in 2009, a collaborative book with JH Engström [1].

His work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Liljevalchs konsthall, MARTa Herford, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. His photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm [1].

Petersen has received several awards and recognition for his work, including being named Photographer of the Year at Rencontres d'Arles in 2003 and winning the PhotoBook of the Year at Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards in 2012 for his book "City Diary" [1].