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In his search for beauty, for the depiction of a male body far removed from cliché ideals, for playful eroticism and for lightness, Walter Pfeiffer (*1946) uses the photographic lens. The Swiss artist trained his eye at an early stage in his life as a shop window decorator, later he portrayed rebellious young people from the gay underground scene in Zurich, and finally supplied photo-series to the most “in” international fashion magazines. Walter Pfeiffer oscillates successfully between fashion photography and fine art. His landscapes, still lifes and portraits are never nondescript. They …