Bonnie Parker Aiming Rifle At Clyde Barrow 1932 Ford V-8 B-400 March 1934 #2 Wood Print

"Never go crooked. It's for the love of a man that I'm gonna have to die. I don't know when, but I know it can't be long." - Bonnie Parker (two days before her death), 1910-1934

"No man but the undertaker will ever get me, if officers ever cripple me to where I see they will take me alive, I'll take my own life."- Clyde Barrow, 1909-1934

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...