Caught in the Act Book

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