Overview
Caught in the Act: A Visual History of Contemporary Multimedia Performance. Photographs by Dona Ann McAdams. Introduction by C. Carr. An irreverent book that transcends documentary reportage and reveals with rare wit and energy a gloriously evanescent cuttingedge form of theater: performance art. 100 blackandwhite duotone photographs, 9 X 12, pages."Nearly all the photographs give the viewer the sense not only of attending the event but of sitting in the front row. Most formal theater, music and dance performances put the audience at a distance. Ms. McAdams's photographs suggest there are few divisions between the actor and the audience in performance art."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"It's an amazing documentation of performance art over the past decade. It becomes a portrait of the edge all in blackandwhite photography."
Phillip Glass
Synopsis
Caught in the Act: A Visual History of Contemporary Multimedia Performance. Photographs by Dona Ann McAdams. Introduction by C. Carr. An irreverent book that transcends documentary reportage and reveals with rare wit and energy a gloriously evanescent cuttingedge form of theater: performance art. 100 blackandwhite duotone photographs, 9 X 12, pages.
"Nearly all the photographs give the viewer the sense not only of attending the event but of sitting in the front row. Most formal theater, music and dance performances put the audience at a distance. Ms. McAdams's photographs suggest there are few divisions between the actor and the audience in performance art."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"It's an amazing documentation of performance art over the past decade. It becomes a portrait of the edge all in blackandwhite photography."
Phillip Glass
Booknews
Award-winning photographer McAdams began covering the performance front for the in 1984. This collection gives us an exhilarating, front-row-center look at multimedia performance art as captured in her exuberant black-and-white photographs. The oversize (9.25x12.25<">) documentary also includes contributions of words, drawings, and scores from some of the pictured performers, among whom are Holly Hughes, DANCENOISE, Allen Ginsberg, and Philip Glass. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.