Will McBride

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Will McBride and Model, South of France 1975

Will McBride (born January 10, 1931 in St. Louis , Missouri , † January 29, 2015 in Berlin ) was an American photographer and visual artist living in Germany .

Life

McBride spent his childhood and youth in Chicago . He studied painting at the National Academy of Design from 1950 to 1951 and art history , painting and illustration at Syracuse University from 1951 to 1953 , both in New York . He also took private lessons with Norman Rockwell .

During his military service in the US Army , he was stationed in Würzburg between 1953 and 1955 ; then he stayed in Germany and studied philology at the Free University of Berlin . From 1959 he established himself as a freelance photographer, initially in Berlin and from 1961 in Munich . There he founded his own photo studio in 1965 , where he mainly worked for the advertising industry.

Since 1959 McBride was married to Barbara Wilke. The two had three sons. His wife left him in 1969, married the gastro critic Wolfram Siebeck and received sole custody of the sons.

From 1972 to 1982 McBride retired from professional life and lived with a friend near Casoli near Camaiore in Tuscany , where he studied painting and sculpture . In 1983 he opened a photo studio in Frankfurt am Main , which he ran until 1998. After that, McBride lived as a freelance artist in Berlin, where, according to his own statements, he still took photos on a daily basis, but used the pictures exclusively as material for painting.

McBride was buried in the French Cemetery II in Berlin-Mitte .

Work and meaning

McBride worked as a photo reporter for magazines such as Quick , Brigitte , Film und Frau , Eltern , Geo , Stern , Life , Look , Playboy and Paris Match . The youth magazine published in 1960 twen McBride's portrait of his pregnant wife Barbara in profile, what a scandal triggered. McBride's photo documentation of the birth of his son and in particular his educational book Show me! Also aroused outrage . .

All ownership of McBride's artistic estate, including 65 years of photographic production and correspondence, has been placed in the Will McBride Archives in Bristow, Germany.

The Will McBride Archive

By agreement between the heirs, ownership of all of Will McBride's artistic estate, including 65 years of photographic production and correspondence, will be placed in the Will McBride Archives in Bristow, Germany. This includes copyright ownership that has passed to his son Shawn M. McBride. The archive is accessible for research, works with publishers and enables exhibitions, confirms the authenticity of the work and issues a limited number of reprints.

Prizes and awards

In 2004 McBride was honored with the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) for his “life's work in style” . For his life's work, the German Designer Club awarded him honorary membership in 2011 .

Exhibitions

  • In 1992 the retrospective Will McBride - 40 Years of Photography took place. a. was shown in Frankfurt, Bonn, Hamburg and Munich.
  • several exhibitions in the gallery argus fotokunst
  • Exhibition of works by McBride at the Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren (December 2007 to February 2008)
  • October 31, 2014 to January 16, 2015: I fell in love with this city in the C / O Berlin gallery
  • March 11, 2015 to April 24, 2015: Salem Suite - Photographies de 1963 at the Au Bonheur du Jour gallery in Paris
  • April 17 - June 19, 2016 A sensitive realist in the KuK - Art and Culture Center Monschau

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009: Nude Visions. 150 years of body images in photography , Munich City Museum / Photography Collection, Munich
  • 2010: Eros and Stasi. East German Photography Collection Gabriele Koenig , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen

Publications

  • 1958: Lynn Millar, Will McBride: Berlin and the Berliners seen by Americans. 60 shots by Lynn Millar. 27 recordings by Will McBride. With 87 mostly full-page photos, 95 pages. Rembrandt publishing house, Berlin
  • 1965: Adenauer, a portrait. Joseph Keller Verlag, Starnberg
  • 1970: Martin Goldstein , Will McBride: Lexicon of Sexuality - 400 times information, answer and description. With approx. 112 photos on boards and in text, 224 pages. Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen
  • 1972: Martin Goldstein, Will McBride: Lexicon of Sexual Education . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • 1974: Show me! A picture book for children and parents. Foreword by Helmut Kentler . Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1974, ISBN 978-3-7795-7318-0
  • 1975: Show Me! A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents. St Martins Press, ISBN 0-312-72275-3 (English edition of Show me! )
  • 1979: Knips. Berlin pictures from the 50s. Berlin, ISBN 3-7925-0264-X .
  • 1979: Our Father. Jugenddienst Verlag, Wuppertal, ISBN 3-7795-7332-6 .
  • 1982: Siddhartha. 130 pages. SWAN, Kehl, ISBN 3-88230-502-9 .
  • 1983: Photo diary 1953–1961. 175 pages. ISBN 3-88725-085-0 .
  • 1985: Will McBride, Uwe Seidel: Das Hohe Lied. Love poems transferred from the Old Testament. Burckhardthaus-Laetare Verlag, Offenbach, ISBN 3-7664-9204-7 .
  • 1986: Boys. 117 pages. Verlag CJ Bucher, Munich, ISBN 3-7658-0520-3 .
  • 1988: Show me more . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-407-85089-1 .
  • 1988: "R" poems and letters Richard Geldmacher, photographs Will McBride, ISBN 3-980 2000-0-0
  • 1992: Will McBride. 40 years of photography. 192 pages. Schaffhausen, ISBN 3-908162-02-5 . (Catalog of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, among others)
  • 1994: My Sixties. (Text in English, German and French). 80 pages. Verlag Taschen, ISBN 3-8228-9452-4 .
  • 1998: I, Will McBride. 460 pages. Publishing house Könemann, ISBN 3-89508-452-2 .
  • 1999: Coming of Age. 112 pages. Aperture, ISBN 0-89381-853-4 .
  • 2000: Situations - Projects. A photo book. 63 pages. Rimbaud-Verlagsgesellschaft, Aachen, ISBN 3-89086-956-4 .
  • 2002: Romy. 160 pages. Knesebeck, Berlin, ISBN 3-89660-142-3 .
  • 2003: My Italy. 232 pages. Knesebeck, Berlin, ISBN 3-89660-111-3 .
  • Mathias Bertram (ed.): Berlin on the move . Photographs 1956–1963. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-942473-67-5 .
  • 2005: In Focus American Photo, Ed Hirsch

Quotes

"I cannot photograph what I don't feel."

- McBride : 2004

“When a boy crosses my path, I stop, all my attention is focused on what he's doing. I look and look, looking for signs of life, and I am never disappointed, for nowhere is life more evident than in a boy. The boy drives me crazy because I'm not like him anymore. Life has power over me, over the boy in me, and makes him old and powerless. I am a master photographer, although actually only an amateur. "

- McBride : in the photo book "Boys", ISBN 3-7658-0520-3

literature

  • Monika Flacke: Will McBride. Adenauer and his children. Photographs 1956–1968. Berlin 1994.
  • Christian Fricke: Will McBride: Lived History. (Photo scene). In: Photography October 2004, pp. 90ff.
  • Tom Moran: The photo essay. Will McBride & Paul Fusco. (Masters of contemporary photography). New York 1974.
  • Franz H. Mösslang (Ed.): Report of the reporter. How they get their photo success. Seebruck 1964.
  • Jordan Todorov: "Hey, that would be amazing, Mr. Chancellor!" Conversation with the photographer Will McBride (1931–2015). In: Fotogeschichte 35 (2015), issue 136, pp. 52–61.
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0
  • Ulf Erdmann Ziegler : The Invention of the West. A German story with Will McBride. , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783518074992 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Poschardt : The man who discovered wild Berlin is dead . Welt Online , January 29, 2015, accessed December 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Schumacher: Half a life in front of the plate . Wümme-Zeitung , July 25, 2015, accessed December 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ “Children's Worlds” in Photo Art: Fascinating Children's Moments: 3 Girls (Florence 1957). stern.de , March 23, 2014, archived from the original on March 27, 2014 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Will McBride: Barbara McBride pregnant with Shawn, 1960 . Deutsches Historisches Museum , Berlin, 1960. In 1991 Annie Leibovitz quoted this motif in her cover photo for Vanity Fair magazine : It showed the pregnant Demi Moore naked and caused similar indignation.
  5. ↑ Thomas Bärnthaler (interview), Will McBride, Dan Cermak (photos): "In the sixties I was mostly pregnant" . Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , issue 08/2010, Mode & Accessoires, accessed on December 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Lisa Steiner: The Nude War Photographer: Farewell to Will McBride . Berliner Kurier , January 31, 2015, accessed December 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ https://www.willmcbride-archive.com
  8. ↑ Will McBride receives 2004 Salomon Prize from the DGPh. German Society for Photography, 2003, archived from the original on June 30, 2004 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Honorary Members: Will McBride †. German Designer Club, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Exhibitions in the arugs fotokunst gallery . Gallery argus fotokunst - fine photographic prints, accessed December 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Will McBride. A legend of German photojournalism. kunsthaus kaufbeuren, archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  12. ↑ News, Exhibitions: 31/10/14 to 16/01/15: Will McBride . C / O Berlin, accessed on December 5, 2016.
    Michael Sontheimer : Berlin photos by Will McBride: The hunger for life after the war . Spiegel Online , October 30, 2014, accessed December 5, 2016.
  13. ^ Exhibition in the Au Bonheur du Jour gallery
  14. ↑ Will McBride: A Sensitive Realist
personal data
SURNAME McBride, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2015
Place of death Berlin