Karlheinz Weinberger - Jeans - 2011

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BRILLIANT BOOK OF HOMOEROTIC PHOTOS by well-known Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006) - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

"On the Influence of American Fashion on a Segment of Swiss Male Youth in the 1950s and 1960s."

The first publication of a self-created portfolio by Karlheinz Weinberger from the late 1950's.
Weinberger was a self-taught photographer who worked in a warehouse by day, publishing photos under an alias in seminal gay underground publication Der Kreis, his images uniformly homoerotic, showing both friends and lovers as well as documenting fringe male groups like bikers. The images here provide an inventory of men in blue jeans, which were scarce in postwar Switzerland and thus presented both masculine definition and a symbol of individuality. Beautifully printed book, presented like a photo album, which large-format photos every other page.

ESSENTIAL BOOK.

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Bywater Bros. Editions, Toronto. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art, New York. 2011. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 247 x 380 mm. 112 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Karlheinz Weinberger. Text: Gianni Jetzer. Text in English.

Fantastic, sought-after photobook by Karlheinz Weinberger - in perfect condition.

Commencing his career in the 1950s as a self-taught photographer working primarily for the gay underground Zurich club and magazine Der Kreis, Karlheinz Weinberger took candid shots of lovers, friends and strangers on the street with an overt erotic investment in his subjects. He soon developed a fixation with the working-class youth culture known as the “Halbstark” (or “half strong”). Its members demonstrated their anti-establishment stance with embellished outfits of denim and leather, in an exaggerated and homemade version of the popularized American bad-boy style of the time. In his stark, posed photographs of these young rebels, Weinberger focuses on individual figures, exploring both a personal erotic obsession and the cultural symbolism of blue jeans, whose scarcity in post war Switzerland implied not just a fashion statement but a badge of pride. This publication reproduces a rare portfolio of these works that Weinberger designed himself in the mid-1950s.