Buy Issue The opening pages of this lavishly printed book, simply titled Peter Berlin, exemplify the man himself. In one photograph he is able to look both coquettish and slightly troubled, leaning over a bed, back arched to show his taut buttocks in their glory, wearing nothing but a neckerchief and very small white pants.
Next to him is an old Nikon camera and self-timer, set up for him to snap away at his own flesh. The other image is more explicit, with full-frontal nudity. Peter stands, pouting into the lens with hand carefully placed next to his sizeable, erm, moneymaker, which sits matter-of-factly beneath a studded belt. Then we see him all s earth child: naked, covering his modesty with his hands and some very tall grass.
For those unfamiliar with Peter Berlin, born Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene, he took it upon himself to become a multifaceted creature of intrigue. He was a sex symbol, photographer, pornographer, clothing designer, illustrator and more, who wound up being photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol.
He was also drawn by Tom of Finland, whose iconic illustrated muscular bodied and blonde-coiffed figures almost mirror the physique of Peter Berlin himself. Sosa made the unusual choice to have a full ten initial spreads made up purely of uncaptioned images. The pair met in , with Mappplethorpe asking to photograph Berlin, with the latter rather boldly claiming that he still preferred his own images.
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