In Conversation: Dona Ann McAdams and Eileen Myles

In Conversation: Dona Ann McAdams and Eileen Myles

Recorded Thursday, May 15, 2025 at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

Please watch photographer Dona Ann McAdams and poet Eileen Myles talk about Black | Box at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, recorded on Thursday, May 15, 2025.

Black | Box is an exhibition by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combining 50 years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts. Her photographs, taken between 1974 and 2024, document astonishing moments and people across decades of American life. These striking historical images paired with personal reflections that read like prose poems work together to convey an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of McAdams' recent monograph, Black | Box: A Photographic Memoir, published by Saint Lucy Books.