KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER - HALBSTARKE (Vol.1) and the iconic background settings

and the iconic background settings

Luis Sanchis has created an idiosyncratic look in modern analog photography that have not lost any of the sultry appeal since they were created and that we still see referenced regularly

On this particular frontier cowboys and Indians fight the same fight against wild bulls and their own gravity

For the past ten years

“One Photographer’s Haunting Love Song to Appalachia” by Ellyn Ruddick-Sunstein

KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER - HALBSTARKE (Vol.1) and the iconic background settingsIn 1958, Zrich photographer Karlheinz Weinberger first captured the likeness of Halbstarke (rebel) Jimmy Oechslin, an artistic moment which marks the genesis of this collection of images focused on young Swiss teenagers. That particular photographic encounter triggered Weinbergers life long fascination with outsiders and nonconformists in the otherwise staid environment of Switzerland. The photographs presented in this first of several volumes about