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. His work has the gritty, involved quality of 50s photographers such as Klein and van der Elsken.
His sex education book Show Me was withdrawn from publication in the US, and cannot be sold there. Will McBride has always been a controversial artist. His photo essays appeared regularly in various German magazines, and that work has established itself as a chronicle of the Kennedy and Adenauer years. Will McBride rose to fame in the 1950s and ‘60s as a pre-eminent documentary photographer. Will McBride was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1931 but has lived in Germany since 1955. Towards the end of his life, he mainly worked as a painter and sculptor.« Return to All Photographers Will McBride When Kennedy, Brandt and Adenauer pulled up at the Brandenburg Gate in an open-top car in 1963, Will McBride captured the moment as a photo reporter. McBride worked for major magazines like Life, Paris Match and Stern. A Sunday drive in a Beetle to Lake Wannsee with girls in petticoats or teenage parties on riverboats: these scenes captured by McBride showed the leisure side of Berlin and could just as well have been taken in the midwestern United States. Beyond photographing the ruins, he was a keen observer of human behavior. McBride, as he once declared, "fell in love" with Berlin and its people. The C/O Berlin gallery had an exhibition of his post-war works in the autumn of 2014. Will McBride's photos were the first to be featured at the Amerika Haus cultural exchange institute in Berlin when it opened in 1957. Some scenes were heartbreakingly memorable, such as West Berliners holding their babies up in the air, trying to show them to their relatives in the East who couldn't come to the baptism. He started documenting everyday life amidst the ruins of war - lonely people, wounded veterans, women clearing away rubble while their children ran around in lederhosen. The idea was inspired by Will McBride Image: picture-alliance/dpa US photographer Annie Leibovitz in front of portrait of pregnant Demi Moore. After his military discharge, he stayed in Germany and landed in Berlin, a city destroyed by the war and divided into four sectors by the Allies. In Chicago, McBride studied graphic design and painting before serving in the army. Though modest by today's standards, his photo was considered obscene at the time. His portrait of his pregnant wife Barbara was published in the German magazine Twen in 1960. Annie Leibowitz's inspiration was a picture by Will McBride. Everyone knows the controversial 1991 Vanity Fair cover showing a very pregnant Demi Moore.
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