Quote from: RyanWreck on May 02, 2011, 09:38:38 AM
Just found a copy of Show Me! by McBride for only $120. Has anyone read this before? I know it sells for up to $500 so I'm assuming it will be a good investment in the end but I also want to know if it is a good book in general, not just a collectors piece. I'm honestly surprised that you can buy this on mainstream sites.
120$ is good price, if it's mint condition and english language version. Note that german version is the bigger edition published couple of times with quite high success. English language version is much more rare due destroyed printrun and what was at least assumedly done only once.
This book is not illegal per se, I would say. Depends on the country, but even in countries where it was banned to distribute, it's still openly found from specialist art dealers who sell collectable book of all kinds. I recall I bought it once from some Irish antique book merchant, along with pile of other photobooks. Of course, due nature of the book, I wouldn't necessary recommend buying it somewhere where customs will open it, but I don't think this would fall under "kp" in court. It's probably not as "hard" as some people make it sound like, and it never advocates adults/kids action. It's not some guidebook for pedo's like some people have proclaimed (Possibly without seeing it). It's just pretty free-minded sex education book in the 60's/early 70's wibe, where images show how people will learn about these things. Will McBride is very talented photographer. See his website:
www.will-mcbride-art.com
when you go to photography, and check out for example sample "Barbara with her Children Shawn, Robin und Brian", it's shows close to the style of "Show Me". Very well done b/w art photography.. of course some more explicit ones.
From his own site:
QuoteZeig Mal!
Jugend Dienst Verlag Wuppertal, 1974
Realizing that sex education should begin earlier than the teens, McBride did a book with psychologist Helga Fleichhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. »Show Me!« was highly controversial, sold over a million copies, but was finally banned in the United States and other countries.
I think there was German re-print even in 90's - which didn't get so well received by people like it did in 70's... No wonder!
