Karlheinz Weinberger Makes Us Thirsty for Summer Fun

All photos by Karlheinz Weinberger. From Mediterrano/Sturm & Drang Publishers.

The late Swiss cult photographer Karlheinz Weinberger is known for his portraits of hardcore rockers and nudists. But little-known—and until now mostly unpublished—are a series of sultry, sunbaked photographs that Weinberger snapped during his summer holidays to the Mediterranean beginning in the 1950s. Shot on the coasts and islands of Italy and across the sea into Morocco, the portraits capture the sailors, fisherman, beach bums, dockworkers, and the various handsome, muscular men that Weinberger encountered as while working his way through this string of coves and ports, immortalizing a moment in time when living and posing were two wholly separate enterprises. The intrepid Swiss publishing house Sturm & Drang has collected Weinberger’s seafaring sojourns in the newest volume of his work, Mediterraneo. Enjoy the sunshine.  —CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN

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