Cleveland’s “Traffic Guardians”

Dimitri Mellos, Gas station near lake Prespa, northern Greece, 2006

Jamie Dornan | Mert Alas

Attention, leather jacket lovers! The great outsider Swiss photographer and aficionado of firm male flesh Karlheinz Weinberger (10 June 1921 – 10 December 2006) was born on this day 105 years ago. He specialized in documenting rockabilly and motorcycle gang subcultures in the sixties and seventies, taking smouldering homoerotic portraits of sullen leather-clad thugs posed like defiant peacocks. It was reading John Waters’ garrulous praise that turned me on to Weinberger’s work, and I am eternally grateful. One regret: I wish I’d snapped up Rebel Youth (the 2011 coffee table book compiling Weinberger’s photography) when it first came out. It’s slipped out of print since and copies now go for over £100 on eBay! If you’re curious to delve deeper, following the official Karlheinz Weinberger Instagram page is a must.

Skating Rink, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, Photo by Larry Fink, 1980

Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Etc., 1990. Acrylic on museum board, 20 x 30 in.

via Museo Gregorio Prieto

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943), On the Beach, c.1940-41. Oil on Masonite, 22 x 28 in.

28 x 36 inches

K. Gatavan. Untitled. Paper, gouache, 2024.

'pov' photo by benjamin fredrickson and styling by marcus cuffie for fantastic man #42