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Title: I, Will McBride by Will McBride ISBN: 3-89508-452-2 Publisher: Konemann Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Emotional, beautiful, high-quality photographic book.
Comment: A photographic, autobiographical work covering McBride's life up to the 1970s ("To be continued"). Excellent, high quality photographs of McBride's work, including some controversial items. Text in German and English, with emotionally sad overtone. This is a large, physically heavy, high quality book - but many photographs are printed as a spread across facing pages, causing the inevitable problem that the photos are marred by being broken across the binding in the middle.

McBride's work is hard to come by, most of it having been published in magazines, and in books now out of print. This book provides an overview of the incredibly vast quantity of photographs taken by McBride over his life, and it creates a longing to own a much more comprehensive set of his photos, as photographic prints (or on CDROM?) without the binding breaking up the photos.

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best overviews of any artist's life and work
Comment: 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.

Rating: 1
Summary: narcissism as engaged art
Comment: It is sad to see how a fertile period (the 60s and 70s) ends up being represented by some of its worst features: woodenly articulated ideology, narcissism, pretension, complacency, self pity. It is of course interesting to see, with time, how silly and sometimes downright wrong some of the slogans of the period in fact were. This book helps us see that, and as such is a real document.But its manipulations are deeply objectionable: invoking, for instance, Freud and Reich to justify one's own personal predilections is almost perverse (the reality of a child's sexuality should have nothing to do with the exploitation of that sexuality).
To my mind, the professionalism of the photos does not justify this book's apparent reputation.

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