Research Catalog

Title

Photographs : together & alone / Karlheinz Weinberger ; edited by Ben Estes ; introduction by Collier Schorr.

Author

Weinberger, Karlheinz, 1921-2006

Publication

[Brooklyn, NY] : The Song Cave, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Estes, Ben
• Schorr, Collier

Description

xiii, 224 pages : illustrations, portraits; 19 cm

Summary

This landmark entry in the lifework of Zürich photographer Karlheinz Weinberger gathers more than 200 never-before-published vintage photographic prints that were rediscovered in 2017. This unique collection pairs images of Weinberger's most famous subjects, the Halbstarke, a loosely organized group of Swiss rebels in the late 1950s and early 1960s, carousing at local carnivals and on a camping trip with a much more private side of Weinberger's oeuvre: solo portraits of men from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, whom he invited into his makeshift studio in the rooms of the apartment he shared with his mother. The men in these portraits, construction workers, street vendors, bicycle messengers, outsiders, span a spectrum of fully clothed, arms-crossed poses to campy and flirtatious, fully nude and reclined, while others mimic art historical postures. All of these images, though, reveal a palpable tenderness between photographer and subject, offering an expansive, uncritical take on the male form in an era when being photographed was not the casual, ubiquitous record it is today. Though not a professional photographer (he worked as a warehouse stock manager), Weinberger captured his subjects with a distinctly gay male gaze, both carnal and artistic, and this collection is certain to earn his work a larger following and appreciation.

Alternative Title

Karlheinz Weinberger

Subject

• Weinberger, Karlheinz, 1921-2006
• 1900-1999
• Photography of men > Switzerland > 20th century
• Photography of the nude
• Photography, Artistic
• Photography of men
• Switzerland

Genre/Form

Photobooks.

Note

• Place of publication from publisher's website.

Call Number

JQC 21-15

ISBN

• 9781734035117
• 1734035110

OCLC

1159837934

Author

Weinberger, Karlheinz, 1921-2006, photographer.

Title

Photographs : together & alone / Karlheinz Weinberger ; edited by Ben Estes ; introduction by Collier Schorr.

Publisher

[Brooklyn, NY] : The Song Cave, [2020]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Estes, Ben, editor.

Schorr, Collier, writer of introduction.

Spine Title

Karlheinz Weinberger

Research Call Number

JQC 21-15