As Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene gazed into the camera, he began to fall in love with the image he created of himself: the legendary ‘70s icon Peter Berlin. The quintessential libertine in the decade between free love, gay liberation, and the advent of AIDS, Berlin embodied the very essence of sex itself. With his trademark blonde pageboy haircut that fell into his come-hither eyes, Berlin barely covered his exquisitely chiseled physique with skintight clothes that hugged every bulge, inviting all to partake in the pleasures of the flesh.
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“My pictures are truthful; there is no fakery. They were made under the best circumstances and the image became a powerful thing,” Berlin tells Document Journal from his home in San Francisco in advance of the publication of the new book, Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual. “The book is just like everything else in my life: it came from the outside. I completely live separated from the world. I always was doing my thing. I have a great time with my mind. I think about Peter Berlin. Why did I do what I did?”
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