Contact
- Website: http://www.frank-mcadam.com
Biography
I was born in Brooklyn and have lived a long time on Manhattan's Upper West Side. My great-great-grandfather, also Frank McAdam, was famine Irish and arrived in NYC on The Star of the West in April 1848. My family has lived in the city since.
After I'd graduated magna cum laude from Holy Cross, a Catholic high school in Queens, I went through Fordham on full academic scholarships, both from the university itself and from the NYS Regents. My B.A. was in English lit.; my unofficial minor was in Asian philosophy and art history. After I'd gotten my degree, I taught myself photography from the Time-Life series, now out of print. Later, I took one good photography course at the School of Visual Arts (Studio Lighting taught by Bud Cannarella) and one at the New School (The Fine Print taught by George Tice).
Interests
Besides my photography, I'm also working on a short novel – to be illustrated with my photographs and published online as it's written – heavily influenced by Japanese pinku eiga cinema. I've traveled in Europe and Asia. I'm a Buddhist, and I also study Taoism and the I Ching. I hate racism, war and violence; my heroes are Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. I enjoy reading good books – from Murasaki's Genji to Paul Bowles' Let it Come Down – and going to art exhibits, theater, and to hear classical music at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. But I still love the music that rocks: Velvet Underground, Bauhaus, Iggy Pop, Bowie, Massive Attack, Radiohead and The Concretes. And the older blues/rock too – Hendrix, Cream, The Stones and, especially, The Doors.
