Deadly Intent: Crime & Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive - Hardcover

Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, a practicing New York City ophthalmic surgeon, is also an internationally distinguished photo-historian, author, lecturer, curator, and collector. Over the last three decades he collected over 800,000 images, including what is perhaps the most comprehensive private collection of crime, forensic, lynching, prison, and execution photography. Dr. Burns has published criminology photographs in collections including Harm’s Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem (Twin Palms, 1994) and produced the memorial photography collection Sleeping Beauty (Twelvetrees Press, 1990). In 2006, the Burns Archive released Patients & Promise: A Photographic History of Mental and Mood Disorders, presenting photographs of mentally ill criminals. Dr. Burns has also worked on several episodes of Autopsy, the critically acclaimed HBO forensic documentary series.

Sara Cleary-Burns has been involved in the art world for many years. Since 1985 she has chosen to concentrate on photography as art, specializing in early hand-colored images in their original frames, as well as manipulated photographs. In pursuit of these interests she turned her hand to mounting and presenting museum exhibitions, such as the highly successful Forgotten Marriage, which toured throughout the United States. As an archivist, administrator, fundraiser, and publicist, she has been involved with some of the major photographic collections of the United States.