Cynthia captures them boldly, without trying to be complex or intellectual.” In her artist’s statement for the book, MacAdams said: “I looked for women…. The spirit of that struggle is in the pictures. Steven Kasher of New York Kasher Gallery said:“This work is pertinent because we want to see what these amazing women looked like when they were in their prime, shaking things up. Emergence began as a collection of portraits of women friends and became a feminist statement of the 1970s. MacAdams published three books of photography. She met Beat Generation poets at Naropa Institute in Colorado, and began her portrait work. MacAdams has remained an active member of the Actors Studio in New York and Los Angeles. She went on to work in several films, including The Last Movie,and The Mad Bomber before turning to photography. In 1966 she became a member of the Actors Studio and worked in several productions. In 1965, Robert Frank offered her a role in his film Me and My Brother. It was during this period that MacAdams met two of her lifelong friends and mentors: the actress Shelley Winters and the photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Sandy Meisner. Career Acting Īfter graduating from Northwestern, MacAdams worked in summer stock and then, in 1961 moved to New York and landed a part in the Broadway production of Nightlife by Sidney Kingsley. She transferred to Northwestern University in Chicago in 1959, and graduated in 1961 with a B.A. MacAdams attended South Dakota State from 1957 to 1959, where she developed a love for theater and acting. Cynthia's summers were spent at the family cabin on the Native American land of Pickerel Lake. Cynthia's mother continued the newspaper after the death of her husband in 1944. The family moved to Sisseton, South Dakota in the early 1920s where they owned and ran the local weekly newspaper, the Sisseton Courier. She was the third and youngest child of Grace Woodworth and Albert Adams. Cynthia MacAdams was born in Webster, South Dakota.
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