Karlheinz Weinberger: The Swiss Photographer Who Captured a Generation of Rebellion
Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger’s iconic images of rebellious 1950s youth and underground athleticism capture a bold, subversive vision of masculinity that continues to influence fashion and photography today.
By day, Karlheinz Weinberger was a warehouse clerk. But by night—and any free moment in between—he was a man with a camera, on a decades-long mission to document a side of masculinity that mainstream postwar Swiss culture tried to ignore. Weinberger (1921–2006) is now recognized as one of Switzerland’s most fascinating photographers, known for his gritty, intimate portraits of rebellious youth…
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