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It signifies not only the triumph of the ego but also of the pleasure principle, which is able here to assert itself against the unkindness of the real circumstances. In his photographs, the former dancer and choreographer AdeY arranges his models sculpturally: often dressed only in sneakers, they are put into geometric groups, leaning together closely or stacked on top of each other.
The civilizing scaffolding of our everyday life is visibly and humorously questioned as such. The Swedish-British artist combines his protagonists in the no-frills environment of a laundry room Laundry Time, or places them on an empty shelf Modern Living, For his magazine Twen, McBride photographed the sixteen performers of the then Munich Hair Musical naked and staged them in eleven boxes — as a protest against the Vietnam War and as a plea for a free life in which everyone is allowed to show their nakedness differently, thoughtfully, bashfully, carefree.
This, too, is one of the most striking pictorial documents of the movement in Germany, and at the same time a symbolic image of the sexual revolution. AdeY's photographs avoid focusing on the individual. He does not show the faces of the participants and thus achieves a stronger identification with the viewers. The right to differences drives his pictures.
