I, Will McBride [Hardcover]

Will McBride (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Konemann (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3895084522
• ISBN-13: 978-3895084522
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 10 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,289,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent artist, magnificent book, April 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: I, Will McBride (Hardcover)

What an incredible book! I really was left speechless the first time I was it (and that doesn't happen too often!). McBride's photography is often labelled as "exploitive" or "deviant" by small-minded western detractors, but this collection of his works (photography, drawings, and sculpture) clearly shows that he is a person in love with the human form, not in lust with it. There will always be those who define anything outside their tastes as "immoral," so this book is not for such folks. For those who can differentiate between art and "obscenity," and who are willing to be a little shocked by what they view (yes, even I was a little shocked by some of the "Zeig Mal!/Show Me!" images, and I consider myself a pretty progressive person), this is a wonderful overview of McBride's work.

My only gripe, as another reviewer noted, is that it left me with an intense desire to have larger or better-quality prints of some of the images. I think a CD-ROM [set] containing high-resolution reproductions of the images in the book would be an outstanding addition to any future releases.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A look in a time thats gone, June 20, 2000

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This review is from: I, Will McBride (Hardcover)

The first things I've read about McBride have been the controversies about his book "Show Me", which is for many a great book for sexual education, for others just porn. But, if you look in this book, then you will see that McBride and his work is connected with the end-sixties, the time of flower-power, anti-war and anti-establishment demonstrations and the time of sexual freedom. So it was just strange for me to see what was going on in this times and McBrides life (and not easy to relate to), but I count this book as a document of a generation and a time I wasn't part of. In this sense I think it's good, and it seems to be nonsense to lament about the sexual freedom which is shown (also most of "Show Me") because that was part of this time.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best overviews of any artist's life and work, July 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: I, Will McBride (Hardcover)

The oft-controversial, but more oft-brilliant Will McBride often gets lumped into the same category as Jock Sturges or Sally Mann. There's some casual linkage there, but McBride has his own distinct territory, and it's examined exuberantly in this gigantic compendium of just about everything he did that's worth looking at. It's far superior to the impossibly skimpy Taschen book "My '60s", and even goes so far as to include the complete set of pages for "Zeig Mal!" (Show Me!), although they are reproduced rather small, probably to avoid too much trouble with small-minded authorities. Anyone even remotely interested in photography or McBride's work in general should not miss this.