I, Will McBride (Cologne: Könemann, 1997).

Will McBride (Frankfurt/Main: Editions Stemmle, 1992).

Situationen/Projekten/Ein Fotobuch (Aachen: Rimbaud, 1992).

Zeig mal mehr! (Weinheim: Beltz, 1988), with text by Frank Herrath and Uwe Sieler.

Siddhartha (Kehl on Rhine: Swan Verlag, 1982).

Foto-Tagebuch (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann, 1982).

The Sex Book: A Modern Pictorial Encyclopaedia (London: Herder & Herder, 1971).

Erich Salomon Prize, which is bestowed by the German Photographic Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie) and is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for photography. Let there be no doubt about that I don't make love to boys, I make pictures and sculptures of them, a different way of loving.'.(1) As he stated himself: ' I am very interested in boys. McBride gets quite intimate with his models. McBride's photographs of boys, and especially of his favorite model Uli Hager whom McBride photographed between the ages of 10 and 16, have this 'engaged' aesthetic. Their aesthetic was to break down the barrier between subject and artist, for the artist to become 'engaged' as was being argued by Sartre and the French Existentialists.' Nevertheless, the change in the attitudes toward depictions of naked boys coupled with the prevailing hysteria over child sexual abuse, led the authorities in the United States to ban this book in the 1980s.Īs Joseph Geraci notes, McBride's work 'has the gritty, involved quality of 50s photographers such as Klein and van der Elsken. The book, was initially received positively by educators in Europe and North America. A controversial artist, he illustrated with pictures of young boys and girls the sex education book Show Me! (1975). McBride rose to fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a documentary photographer for various German magazines. Army from 1953 to 1955 and was stationed in Germany, where he decided to live as an expatriate artist. He also took private lessons from Norman Rockwell. McBride grew up in Chicago and studied at the University of Vermont, the Art Institute of Chicago, and finally graduated from Syracuse University in 1953. Louis, Missouri is a famous photographer, painter and sculptor. Will McBride (Janu– January 29, 2015)) born in St.

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