No-Smoking - Original Print - 1975

“No Smoking” was my first ever exhibited photograph, part of a series I did called “Butts and Butts” for one of my advanced photography classes under Terry Wilde at Lycoming College. Nudes and cigarette butts. I had been doing macro photography in one class and nudes in another and decided to combine the two for my end-of-term exhibition. It was Terry Wilde who declared, ‘Nudity is not pornography”. 

“No Smoking” hung on the front door of my sister Peggy and Mickey Muñoz’s house in Dana Point, California for over 25 years, hence the wear.