Folio, original black paper-covered boards, original photographic dust jacket.įirst edition in English of McBride’s controversial photobook, with 125 black-and-white photogravures (many double-page).ĭesigned as a “serious book about sex education,” McBride’s Show Me! is presented “from the point of view of a child learning about sex… a bright and breezy text along the top of each double-page image, while the pictures are shot in a grainy, graphic 1960s style… Free of the coy prurience that so often degrades this genre of photobook,” Show Me! remains “the most sexually explicit book ever published by a mainstream U.S. His photography was represented by the Gendell Gallery in San Francisco.FIRST EDITION OF SHOW ME!, WITH 125 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAVURES McBride also worked in painting and sculpture in the later years of his life. Later collections of his photos, such as the retrospective I, Will McBride (published in 1997) and Will McBride: Coming of Age, published by Aperture, introduced his work to a new generation, and lead to assignments for magazines like Dazed and Confused. Four years later he worked on Zeig Mal! (“Show Me!”), a book on sex education aimed at younger readers and parents. In 1970, he collaborated on The Lexicon of Sexuality with psychoanalyst Martin Goldstein, who had collected questions about sex from high school students. His work was published in news magazines such as LIFE and Stern.Īs early as the late 1950s, McBride was making intimate, candid images of young people that foreshadow work by Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley. McBride stayed on in Germany after his discharge, photographing news events, including President Kennedy’s 1963 visit to Berlin, and reportage stories about the country’s post-war recovery. He served in the US Army in Germany from 1953 to 1955, according to Gendell Gallery in San Francisco. Louis and raised in Chicago, he studied painting with Norman Rockwell while attending the University of Vermont and later graduated from Syracuse University. The American-born photographer published numerous books and in international publications, including Paris Match, LIFE and Dazed & Confused.īorn in St. Photographer Will McBride, renowned for his photos of teenagers and young people exploring freedom and sexuality, died January 30 in Berlin, his longtime home, Die Welt has reported.

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