1950s: Rocker belt-buckles
Karlheinz Weinberger worked as a warehouse manager at the Siemens factory in Oerlikon, Switzerland from 1955 until his retirement in 1986, and lived in the same apartment for almost his whole life.In his spare time, however, he was a photographer. His business card had ‘Photographer of the Unusual’ printed on it.
In 1958, he fell in with the Halbstarken, one of Switzerland’s first underground youth cultures. Weinberger's apartment became for them a refuge. The photos that Weinberger shot of the Halbstarken, as well as motorcycle clubs and other outcasts and rogues, are collected in Swiss Rebels, published by Steidl.
Images: Karlheinz Weinberger
