Steve Moriarty was not yet born in 1947 when his father bought a ten-year-old Leica camera from a pawnshop. His first son had arrived while he was away at war, but now with a second child on the way Steve's father wanted to get a proper family album started, as would any good Eastman Kodak employee. Steve's arrival was duly photographed, as were all succeeding family events. Steve had graduated from Notre Dame with a liberal arts degree in theology and was working in Kansas City when his father bought a new camera and gave Steve the old Leica. As soon as he finished the first roll of film, Steve discovered that photo finishing was costly, or at least it was more than he could afford. With a friend's help, he put Center for Photographic Studies in Louisville, he earned his M.F.A. at Notre Dame in 1980. Those who knew Steve in his pre-Leica days would expect him to stalk the land with more moral notice than most. As an undergraduate he spent two summers living, working, and learning in Presentation parish, an all-black congregation on Chicago's devastated West Side. Upon his return to Notre Dame, he seemed to have more street knowledge of Chicago than Mayor Daley had. Vietnam war protests finally reached Notre Dame, a year later than at Berkeley or Columbia, but were in a more reflective, spiritual mode. When former Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara came to campus to dedicate a new business administration building, Steve met him with a one-man picket line. As students, clergy, and faculty marched, prayed, and debated their way through the war, Steve resolved to file for conscientious objector status. When his name came up on the conscription list, his draft board back home in Kingsport, Tennessee, said it didn't much believe in COs. So Steve was convicted for refusing military service and served time in a federal penitentiary. Of peace, however, he did not repent, and upon release from prison he took up the camera in earnest.