Karlheinz Weinberger: Photographs

Together & Alone
Unseen photos of rebels, outsiders, construction workers and more: celebrating the distinctive gay male gaze of Karlheinz Weinberger This landmark entry in the lifework of Zrich photographer Karlheinz Weinberger gathers more than 200 never-before-published vintage photographic prints that were rediscovered in 2017. This unique collection pairs images of Weinbergers most famous subjects, the Halbstarkea loosely organized group of Swiss rebels in the late 1950s and early 1960s, carousing at local carnivals and on a camping tripwith a much more private side of Weinbergers 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 portraitsconstruction workers, street vendors, bicycle messengers, outsidersspan a spectrum of fully clothed, arms-crossed poses to campy and flirtatious, fully nude and recl