Wearing embroidered denim jackets and oversized belt buckles adorned with the likenesses of idols such as Elvis or James Dean, Weinberger? s adolescent subjects present themselves to his camera in public settings like members of a gang. Photographs such as those taken at the Knabenschiessen, a target shooting competition held at Zurich's Albisgüetli, show them sprawling on the ground between fairground stalls and compact vans, illustrating the 'Halbstarke''s refusal to fit in with the traditions surrounding this Zurich folk festival. In addition to the photographs in public settings, Weinberger also took pictures in the improvised studio in his living room. Scantily clad, some of his subjects, mostly young men, strike confident poses showing off their denim shorts and hats, while others cower, their eyes glancing at the camera with a vulnerable expression. Weinberger's role is that of an Intimate Stranger: he records the attitudes of a generation and its marginal social position in unvarnished pictures and develops the photographs capturing the objects of his fascination in his own photo laboratory. In an oeuvre that spanned many years, Weinberger portrayed what lay behind the curtains of 1960s bourgeois Switzerland, finding ways to document deviancy without ever putting his protagonists on display. Intimate Stranger has been organized by the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art, New York, in collaboration with the estate of Karlheinz Weinberger, Patrik Schedler, and Artist Resources Management, New York. 'Jeans,' a facsimile of a portfolio Weinberger himself designed in the 1950s, has been published by MGK, the Swiss Institute, Presentation House Gallery, and Bywater Bros. Editions. --from press release, http://www. kunstmuseumbasel. ch/uploads/tx_zephirkmdownload/media/Press_Release_Weinberger. pdf.