Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual The Cure Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories

Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories of esoteric knowledge

and establish him as one of the key twentieth-century poets to engage with visual culture

provincial oddities

Between its many flourishes of gallows humor

Don Fleming

Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual The Cure Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositoriesPeter Berlin was a self created icon. With his trademark pageboy haircut and his skin tight costumes that put every detail of his anatomy on display (designed and tailored by Berlin himself to accentuate his already naturally defined physique), he became a gay sex symbol and a walking work of art. Cruising was his career, and with a background in photography, Berlin began taking thousands of erotic self portraits in the parks, train stations and