Vlog, Videoblog: Will McBride : Photographer : Painter
October 17th, 2006
Interview with Will McBride (Quicktime-Video)
Will McBride is one of the big painting photographers, or better photographing painters. Frankly, he donates his life to art, and create grand pictures.
In 2004 his photographic lifework was honored with the famous price “Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis” of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).
“Show me”
Cover of “Show me”. German edition. 1973.
The church spoked of his sex-educational book “Show me” as “work of the devil” and tried to ban it from getting published. It tells a story of sexuality which detecs nakedness as a taboo in our so called tolerant society. It tries to find a new approach to a sex education book for children. The punchline of the book Will McBride tells us in our interview.
Because of changed moral views his book “Show me” – similar to Jock Sturges and Sally Mann – is being fight against. Meanwhile the book is banned in the US, in Germany all attempts of conservative groups failed to censor or ban it from publishing. The Bundesprüfstelle (German Agency for the Examination of Media for Young People) has so far rejected the ban.
Will McBride works with a mission: He wants to free man from his sexual immaturity. In restraint sexuality of man he assumes the basic evil of our society.
The end of the world. Will McBride. 1970.
Romy Schneider by Will McBride.
John F. Kennedy, Willy Brandt, Konrad Adenauer. Will McBride. Berlin.
But Will McBride was indeed versatile. Especially in portrait photography he contributedd very important pictures. His portraits of Romy Schneider, Willy Brandt, Konrad Adenauer and John F. Kennedy have found their way into history. Today Will McBride is no longer interested in Photography in general or photography of so called celebrities.
The scholars in academic photography, however, believe that his style of subjectiv essay was continued by artist such as Nan Goldin. And now follows our conversation with Will McBride.
Das Interview in Deutsch: Klick!
Yours, Daniela Krien.
More award winners of the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis from Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie are: Herlinde Kolbel, Martin Parr and Arno Fischer.
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