Dona Ann McAdams and Brad Kessler (2002): The Garden of Eden: Living with Schizophrenia on Coney Island, 1983-1998

Extent:

.25 Linear Feet

Scope and content:

Collection comprises three 16x20 inch gelatin silver prints published as part of the photobook The Garden of Eden: Living with Schizophrenia on Coney Island by Dona Ann McAdams and Brad Kessler. Through black-and-white photographic portraits, the project documents the lives of institutionalized men and women with severe mental illness. This work was awarded the 2002 Lange-Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

Dona Ann McAdams, a documentarian based in Vermont, has been making photographs for over forty years. Her black-and-white images of performance artists, nuns, race track workers, people with schizophrenia, working farm animals, and human rights protests have has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, the International Center for Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and other venues. She and her project partner Brad Kessler are the recipients of the 2002 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize awarded by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Physical facet:

3 photographic prints

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