SYNOPSIS: (From the book introduction): Children's emotional lives are hidden to most.  They give up their identities only to those with a talent for being; for living with sincerity, for welcoming each moment, for listening.  Will McBride is one of those talented photographers - his collaboration with the subjects of his work, with the young boys he has befriended, has resulted in one of the great extended photographic portraits of male adolescence.

McBride has spent nearly forty years seeking out children in the transition to adulthood, photographing privileged his school students, boys scratching out their lives on the gritty streets of Frankfurt, a fifteen-year-old Spanish bullfighter, and a modern Siddhartha story in India.

In McBride's work, the child's joy and sense of self is in tension with the strictures of the adult world and with his own evolving sensuality.  The boys in McBride's pictures fall in love, seek comfort, display their bravado, suffer deeply, and play with unfettered energy.  Although born into a world of conflicting messages and expectations, the young men coming of age in McBride's photographs are at ease in their bodies and free of spirit.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Because of the physical size of the book (10 x 12 x 3/4 inches), we could not scan any photographs to show you as an example.  However, we can tell you confidently that this book, nearly 112 pages, is packed with glossy color and black & white of artistic nude and clothed photos of boys of all ages.  See families posing together (including McBride's own wife and three boys), candids of children at play and at work, and even a few shots of some of McBride's bronze statues of boys that can still be seen today in Germany and Italy.  Read some poems and poetic descriptions of the photos written by McBride himself, and fans of his work.  Read letters from readers and McBride's fans, and a flattering "afterward" written by William Simon.  All photographs were taken by Will McBride, no stranger to the controversial.  This book is no longer in active circulation (they aren't publishing anymore copies).  So once they're gone, they're gone and will be just as hard to find as the Show Me sex-education book.  We have a limited amount of Coming of Age in stock, but more have been ordered.  It's heavy, it's thick and the shipping can be pricey, but the book is worth it!

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FORMAT: Hardcover, 112 pages

VIEW MULTIMEDIA: NO MULTIMEDIA

PUBLISHER: Aperture.
AVAILABILITY: OUT OF STOCK!  MORE ON THE WAY.
LANGUAGE: English.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Nudity.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA (2005).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  September 27, 2007.
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*There is no sexual content in this book.