Anders Petersen: Zoo

by Anders Petersen (Photographer)

Zoo is a wild ride through the oeuvre of Swedish photographer Anders Petersen (born 1944), a racy edit of his work that has animals as its central theme. Whether they be conscious portraits of animals or a haphazard photographic encounter with a woman’s legs in python-print tights, Petersen draws out the animal and animalistic in all that he sees. At a typical zoo we are the spectators, peering in on creatures as they go about their existence, mostly oblivious to our presence. But in Zoo , we find ourselves both behind and before the bars of the cage―with Petersen as the delighted zookeeper.

320 pages, Hardcover

Published April 23, 2019