THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Cynthia MacAdams
“I WAS BORN A FEMINIST.”
Artist, Actor, Activist, Photographer. Active member of the Actors Studio since joining in 1966.
September 2019
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Self portraits. Photo 1. 1977. Photo 2. 1976. Photo 3. 2020. Photo 4. with Dharma Kaya, 2020.
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More About Cynthia
- Cynthia MacAdams websites
- Cynthia MacAdams pays tribute to her friend Kate Millett. Nov. 9, 2017. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night…”.
- WMagazine.com interview with Cynthia MacAdams May 26, 2017
- A candid conversation with Cynthia MacAdams, 1985. Linda Kavars, Videographer
- Based on Cynthia MacAdams’ book, Emergence – The film, Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture at Duke University Libraries
- Photographs
Selected for “Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library,” September 2010 – January 2011, by Stephen C. Pinson, Curator at the Metropolitan Museum, formerly the head of the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library.
- Books
- Emergence, Introduction by Kate Millett, Chelsea House, Hardcover 1977, E.P Dutton softcover 1978
- Rising Goddess – Morgan & Morgan 1983, Preface by Kate Millett, Introduction by Margaretta K. Michell
- Nude Photography, Amphoto, Hardcover 1985, Softcover 1996, Edited by Peter Lacey
- Mayan Vision Quest, Harper Collins, Hardcover 1991, Softcover 1993
- Book of Nudes, Alessandro Bertolotti, – Harry N. Abrams, Hardcover 2007
- Forthcoming Books by Cynthia MacAdams
- Bowery – 2022
- Egypt: Return to Light – 2024
- Solo Exhibitions
- Group Exhibitions
- Permanent Collections
- Catalogues
- Wikipedia