Anders Petersen (photographer) it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important." "I can't describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them." Anders Petersen (photographer) Anders Petersen (born 3 May 1944) is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. Petersen was born on 3 May 1944 in Solna, Sweden. He studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. For three years beginning
Günther Anders asks: 'Who am I anyway?'"; 11 March 1942. "Shame about the 'embarrassingly' high quality of manufactured goods." What are we embarrassed about? Anders' answer to this question is simply "that we were born and not manufactured." Just as Arendt in her "Eichmann in Jerusalem" elucidated the Banality of Evil by declaring that horrendous crimes can be committed by quite ordinary people, Anders explores the moral and ethical ramifications of the facts brought to light in the 1960-61 trial of Adolf Eichmann in "We Sons of Eichmann: Open Letter to Klaus Eichmann" (the son of the noted Nazi bureaucrat and genocidaire).