CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/6/2021

From hair lacquer to whiskey and sweat in 2021 Pride Month Staff Pick, Karlheinz Weinberger, 'Together & Alone'

Featured image is reproduced from Karlheinz Weinberger: Photographs, Together & Alone, the 2021 Pride Month Staff Pick published by The Song Cave. Collecting more than 200 never-before-published vintage photographs that were rediscovered in 2017, this volume includes pictures of Weinberger’s famous teenage Swiss “rebels” of the late 1950s and early 1960s, shot outside at carnivals and camp sites, alongside very direct but also strange nude male portraits from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, which Weinberger somehow managed to make in a studio he’d set up in the apartment he shared with his mother. “Weinberger’s early images smell of hair lacquer and the later ones smell of whiskey and sweat,” Collier Schorr writes in her excellent introduction. “The latent adolescence of the closeted homosexual gives way to manhood. In a sense they—photographer and subjects—grew up together.”