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Friday, June 23, 2023
Peter Berlin I
Some plumbing adds an interesting composition element in this 1976 photo of Peter Berlin.
The page boy hairstyle. It was revived from Mediaeval times by the flappers in the 1920s and, believe it or not, it was revived for men in the 1960s by none other than Sonny Bono. That lithe, lean look of Peter Berlin's became fashionable in the late 1960s but fell out of favour in the 1980s with the onset of AIDS as people associated thinness with illness, and the gays hit the gyms to put on some muscle mass. That image is very much of its moment.
So true about the thinness. That hairstyle shows up over and over again among German women from the 1920s onward, and it's still around today. I sat next to a young woman with it on a plane from Frankfort to London in 1988. We had a pleasant conversation auf Deutsch on the short flight and wished each other the best for our holidays in London. Three days later I looked at the person who, like me, was lingering at a Constable painting in the National Gallery. It was her! We ended up having lunch together.
Peter Berlin is still alive! (will be 81 in December). Yes he was very thing but with a nice definition and a nice big bulge. And he was into one of my fetishes: very small G-strings. I have somewhere a short color video of him taken in Fire Island, probably on the late 70's using a so small red g-string that he was practically naked. Even taking into account the place and time, it was outrageously provocative! There is a documentary called "That Man: Peter Berlin" by Jim Tushinski, for anyone interested, can be seen on Dailymotion with low resolution (360) at: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3gdgz5
The page boy hairstyle. It was revived from Mediaeval times by the flappers in the 1920s and, believe it or not, it was revived for men in the 1960s by none other than Sonny Bono. That lithe, lean look of Peter Berlin's became fashionable in the late 1960s but fell out of favour in the 1980s with the onset of AIDS as people associated thinness with illness, and the gays hit the gyms to put on some muscle mass. That image is very much of its moment.
ReplyDeleteSo true about the thinness. That hairstyle shows up over and over again among German women from the 1920s onward, and it's still around today. I sat next to a young woman with it on a plane from Frankfort to London in 1988. We had a pleasant conversation auf Deutsch on the short flight and wished each other the best for our holidays in London. Three days later I looked at the person who, like me, was lingering at a Constable painting in the National Gallery. It was her! We ended up having lunch together.
DeletePeter Berlin is still alive! (will be 81 in December).
ReplyDeleteYes he was very thing but with a nice definition and a nice big bulge.
And he was into one of my fetishes: very small G-strings.
I have somewhere a short color video of him taken in Fire Island, probably on the late 70's using a so small red g-string that he was practically naked.
Even taking into account the place and time, it was outrageously provocative!
There is a documentary called "That Man: Peter Berlin" by Jim Tushinski, for anyone interested, can be seen on Dailymotion with low resolution (360) at:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3gdgz5
Thank you for the fascinating backstory on Mr. Berlin!
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