Will McBride (photographer)

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Will McBride
Will McBride 1975.jpg
McBride with a nude female model in the background in 1975
BornJanuary 10, 1931
DiedJanuary 29, 2015(2015-01-29) (aged 84)
U.S.
Occupation Photographer

Will McBride (January 10, 1931 – January 29, 2015) was an American photographer [1] [2] in reportage, art photography and book illustration as well as a painter and sculptor. [3]

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Life

McBride was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Chicago. He was trained as a painter by Norman Rockwell and went on to study drawing and painting at Syracuse University, where he graduated in 1953. From 1953 to 1955 he served in the United States Army at Würzburg, Germany as a lieutenant, and would remain in Germany [4] until his death. [5]

1969 McBride divorced his wife Barbara (née Wilke, married 1959) [6] with whom he had three children: Shawn-, Robin-, and Brian McBride.

His work has been published in the German youth magazine Twen , among other European magazines. Twen provoked a scandal when they published McBride's portraits of his pregnant wife Barbara in 1960. [7]

The bulk of his photography work is not often seen in the USA. McBride's work includes nudity and has experienced censorship. McBride received censure for the photography in his 1975 book Show Me! (German title Zeig Mal!).

Solo exhibitions of his work since 2000 have included at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, [8] the Dany Keller Galerie, [9] Munich, Galerie argus fotokunst, [10] Haus am Waldsee  [ de ], Berlin [11] and C/O Berlin. [1] [12]

In 2004 McBride received the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize from the German Society for Photography. [13]

He died in 2015, age 84. [4]

The Will McBride Archive

Following an agreement between the heirs, ownership of McBride's entire artistic estate, including 65 years of photographic production and correspondence are incorporated in the Will McBride Archive located in Bristow, Germany. This includes the ownership of copyright which has passed to his son, Shawn M. McBride.

The archive is accessible for research, collaborates with publishers and facilitates exhibitions, confirms authenticity of work and issues a limited number of reprints.

Selected books

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References

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  2. "Remembering Will McBride by Alister Mackie". Another Magazine . 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
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  6. Woods, Amanda (30 August 2017). "Wandering Worpswede, the artist community in Germany's Lower Saxony". Adventures All Around. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  7. McBride's bio; profile photo of pregnant wife, from the archive of the Deutsches Historisches Museum
  8. "Quattro mostre" [Four Exhibitions] (in Italian). UnDo.Net. 25 January 2005. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  9. "Will McBride". www.danykellergalerie.de. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  10. "Gallery argus fotokunst - fine photographic prints: Will McBride". www.argus-fotokunst.de. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  11. Will McBride, 1 July 1993 via Flickr
  12. "Will McBride". C/O Berlin. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  13. "The Dr. Erich Salomon Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)". German Society for Photography. Retrieved 2021-10-25.