Walter Pfeiffer has been a perennial figure on the Zurich underground scene. During the 1970s he made a large number of homoerotic Polaroids. His first exhibition, in 1974, took place at the Li Tobler gallery that also showed Manon. His book Welcome Aboard, Photographs 1980-2000 published by Patrick Frey won him international attention, and his work appeared in i-D, BUTTand Vogue Parismagazines. The over-the-top sensuality of his male nudes prefigured a future ico [...]
Walter Pfeiffer has been a perennial figure on the Zurich underground scene. During the 1970s he made a large number of homoerotic Polaroids. His first exhibition, in 1974, took place at the Li Tobler gallery that also showed Manon. His book Welcome Aboard, Photographs 1980-2000 published by Patrick Frey won him international attention, and his work appeared in i-D, BUTTand Vogue Parismagazines. The over-the-top sensuality of his male nudes prefigured a future iconography that would highlight the performative aspect of drag and notions of sexual identity by photographers he inspired such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson and Juergen Teller.