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ClampArt is pleased to present “Salem Suite”—a series of photographs by artist Will McBride (1931-2015) from 1963.

Largely remembered as a celebrated documentarian of the new generation of postwar youth and the sexual revolution in Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s, McBride regularly photographed for a number of European periodicals, including most notably “Twen.” “Twen” caused quite a scandal when they published McBride’s portraits of his pregnant wife in an issue in 1960.

Later, in 1963, the magazine commissioned the artist to shoot a photo-essay on the School of Salem Castle—long considered …