In 1970, he collaborated with psychoanalyst and sex educator Martin Goldstein on The Sex Book (1970), a “pictorially honest encyclopedia on sex”. His images of young male nudes stunned viewers. The 1960s sexual revolution swept through Europe, yet McBride’s work still had the power to shock and offend. He chronicled it all: sulky girls hanging out adolescent boys in an impromptu wrestling match kids playing at a local playground. McBride then documented a new generation of postwar youth who were shaking off the horror of war and embracing sex, freedom and each other. He started with gritty images of the divided Berlin that had been battered and bombed during World War II. McBride wrote that he “fell in love with Berlin”. Army after graduating from Syracuse University in 1953, serving in Germany as a young recruit. McBride trained as a painter with Norman Rockwell. His unflinching but tender depiction of youthful sexuality can be seen as in inspiration for photographers such as Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. The award-winning American photographer Will McBride (1931-2015) is noted for his documentary photographs, which captured the glorious sexual excesses and hardships of postwar Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s.
My profession is the process of gleaning my soul of the poor, poor shreds of ideas that are there to help a dying world understand itself.
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