Action photography is placed between different currents of 20^th century art: performance, happening, dance, body art and conceptual art, among others. Between a photographic image itself and a concrete event, action photography has served as a document of great historical performances, functioning as the only vestige of what once happened, but also as an autonomous work of art.

In this issue of EXIT we feature the work of various artists who, working from different disciplines, coincide in the interest for the body as artistic support, physical processes, the observation of an object or the attention to minimum gestures. Action photography as a capture of the multiple possibilities of the body in contemporary art.

Editorial:

The chaos theory, Rosa Olivares.

Texts:

Lights, camera, action. A brief history of photographs of performance. Fiontán Moran.
Touching the body: performance, photography and print Juan Albarrán. 

Artists:

Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Elías Adasme, Chris Burden, John Cage, Judy Chicago, Rosemarie Castoro, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Regina José Galindo, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Martha Graham, Mª Teresa Hincapié, Allan Kaprow, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jürgen Klauke, Yves Klein, La Ribot, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Le Va, Suzanne Lafont, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Xavier Le Roy, Los Torreznos, Ana Mendieta, Joan Morey, Bruce Nauman, Hélio Oiticica, Gina Pane, Barbara Probst, Berna Reale, Itzíar Okariz, Lotty Rosenfeld, Carolee Schneemann, Amalia Ulman, Vostell, Hannah Wilke, Lorena Wolffer, Erwin Wurm, Yeguas del apocalipsis, Joan Jett Blakk, Gerard H. Gaskin, Bruce W. Talamon, Wu Tsang.