Erich Salomon Prize, which is bestowed by the German Photographic Association and is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for photography. It shows freedom, carefreeness and energy of life like rarely any other picture of this time. Perhaps it was this directness, this sense of unavoidable fact that made his child sexuality photographs so threatening? The camera shows no respect for taboo it sees through the veil. The immediacy of the medium must be restored. It appeared in 1974 in German under the title Zeig Mal, written with psychiatrist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. Will McBride 'Show Me' OLAVSTUDIOS Flickr Show Me Will Mcbride Show Me is a sex education book by photographer Will McBride. Theirs was an attempt to circumvent obstructions to reality, to see the "essence" of the thing observed, to eschew the posed bodies and hard-edged formalism of the Bauhaus. OLAVSTUDIOS has uploaded 591 photos to Flickr. 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 His sex education book Show Me was withdrawn from publication in the US, and cannot be sold there.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. « Return to All Photographers Will McBride