Weinberger s passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and 60s switzerland, who channeled american rocknroll culture and made it their own with their rolledup jeans and denim jackets, bouffant hairdos, striped tshirts, and customized belts boasting images of elvis and james dean. Jon waters, who wrote the forward for rebel youth, by rizzoli new york, released 2011. Weinberger s passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and 60s switzerland, who channeled american rocknroll culture and made it their own with their rolledup jeans and denim jackets. The 50 greatest westerns film western movies, western. Picking up on the weinberger zeitgeist, this month rizzoli is publishing rebel youth, a second book of weinberger photographs featuring 142 neverbeforepublished photographs the first, published in 2000 has become a hardtofind collectors item and two shows of weinbergers work will go on view soon in new york. By all accounts, karlheinz weinberger was unassuming, quiet, kept to himself, and was a loyal employee.
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