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Also: Camille O'Grady, Karlheinz Weinberger and more
New Camille O’Grady Archive
There is a new Camille O’Grady Instagram account I am working with to help promote a forthcoming book about her work and life, coinciding with a vinyl release of her early music on Dark Entries Records. Camille was an artist, drag king, poet, singer and Gay Rights activist. She is a mysteriously overlooked performance artist and contributor to the NYC arts culture of the late 60s & 70s. Camille described herself as a ‘multimedium’ and was one of the only women allowed inside the Mineshaft.
Please give the account a follow, I can’t wait to share more about her life and legacy.
Karlheinz Weinberger Foundation
On my recent visit to NYC, I met with Bruce Hackney, the U.S. Manager of the Karlheinz Weinberger Foundation and co-editor of the Karlheinz Weinberger monograph Rebel Youth, published by Rizzoli.
Karlheinz Weinberger was a Swiss photographer whose work focused on people living on the margins of society—outsiders, rebels, and outlaws. Between 1943 and 1967, under the pseudonym “JIM,” he published photographs of working-class men, athletes, and motorcyclists in the internationally renowned gay magazine Der Kreis.
Beginning in the late 1950s, Weinberger documented the Halbstarke (literally “half-strong”), Switzerland’s postwar youth rebels, and later their evolution into biker gangs. He was also fascinated by male portraiture, tattoos, and body culture. As a freelance sports photographer, he documented wrestling, weightlifting, and other athletic competitions.
Over more than six decades, Weinberger created a remarkable body of work portraying working-class life and the subcultures that stood in sharp contrast to the bourgeois values of postwar Switzerland. Working largely outside the conventional art and photography world, he remained relatively unknown until 2000, when a major exhibition and his first monograph brought him international recognition—just six years before his death.
Listen to a recently released podcast interview with Bruce Hackney HERE to hear more about his relationship with Weinberger and the foundation. You can also follow the foundation on instagram HERE.
Monty Gilbert, Alberto Hernandez and more from In Touch for Men Number 78 / April 1983
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A few more shots of Al Parker from Honcho / May 1981
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