"I had no idea, when I started this book eight years ago (back then, I didn’t think of it as a book), how generous my subjects would be- that they would tell me their stories after I photographed them, in and out of drag.  Hearing their stories of good times, painful times, times of recovery and of success has been my privilege"
Marcus began photographing in 1974 with a Nikon camera given to her by her then-husband Robert Duvall during the filming of Godfather II. The very first picture she took was of a single chair, covered with snow, sitting on a tennis court near Lake Tahoe. “I was very shy, and in a certain way, I could hide behind the camera, which was good.”

Following a period in the 1980s when she studied anthropology and archaeology at Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University, Marcus worked with the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program in NYC. She began photographing the veterans, and a friend inspired her by saying that “great photographers really know their subjects.” Her portraits demonstrate the evolution in her photographic art.

Barbara and her husband Fred have lived in Los Angeles since 2006. Her two daughters and granddaughter also live there. Inside Out, which is self-published, is her first book.