Dramatist Tennessee Williams circa 1949 Canvas Print

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

"Success and failure are equally disastrous.'

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.'

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."

"It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs."

"Nothing is more determined than a cat on a tin roof-is there? Is there, baby?"

"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself." - Tennessee Williams, 1911-1984

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...